text: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Mount Sinai Hospital doctor appeared in court late Tuesday on charges that he sexually abused two female patients while they were being treated. 
   
   Dr. David Newman showed no emotion and wouldn’t respond to questions Tuesday afternoon as his lawyer escorted him into the NYPD Manhattan Special Victims Division, CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez reported. 
   
   He surrendered after days of knowing police were investigating claims by the two women, CBS2’s Jessica Schneider reported. 
   
   In court late Tuesday, Newman was ordered held on $150,000 bond, or $50,000 cash. 
   
   The 40-year-old, highly-regarded emergency room doctor is accused of drugging and sexually abusing a 22-year-old woman in his care. 
   
   “That’s horrifying, especially since I’ve been to Mount Sinai multiple times,” said Jennifer Price, of the South Bronx. “I’ve had multiple surgeries here. And so to hear something like that is very scary, ’cause it’s like how many other women has this happened to?” 
   
   Police say a second alleged victim has come forward — another 22-year-old woman who claims she was seeking treatment for a cold when Newman allegedly groped her during a chest exam. 
   
   The initial sex assault allegations came from a woman who was being treated for a shoulder injury. That woman told police on Jan. 11 Newman knocked her out with morphine then committed a lewd act next to her and left DNA on her body, Sanchez reported. 
   
   The alleged victim kept her hospital gown and bedding for evidence, WCBS 880’s Alex Silverman reported. Police are still awaiting lab results on the DNA. Newman has not volunteered his DNA. 
   
   In court Tuesday night, an assistant district attorney said only nurses are given access to morphine – concluding that Newman must have had his own stash. 
   
   “It’s very scary because when you go in there you’re expecting medical treatment, not to get fondled and touched upon,” said South Bronx resident Jason Price. “That’s ridiculous.” 
   
   Newman lives in Montclair, New Jersey home with his wife and two children, both of whom are under 3 years old. His wife had no comment. 
   
   But Newman’s attorney said his client does not have a criminal record, nor any claims of malpractice against him. 
   
   Newman was immediately suspended from Mount Sinai after the allegations surfaced. 
   
   Hospital officials released a statement saying Newman “has not provided care to patients at Mount Sinai since the investigation began. 
   
   “We take the nature of these allegations very seriously and continue to conduct our own extensive internal inquiry,” the statement said. 
   
   Some Mount Sinai employees were upset by the news. 
   
   Rebecca Banchik said it’s disappointing when people abuse their power or position. “Unfortunately, it happens,” she said. 
   
   Police also believe there may be more victims. If so, they are urging those patients to come forward. ||||| The plot grows sicker. 
   
   A prominent Manhattan doctor was accused of groping a second Mount Sinai Hospital patient before surrendering Tuesday for allegedly masturbating onto another woman’s face, the Daily News has learned. 
   
   Dr. David Newman turned himself in on charges that he ejaculated on a patient knocked out by a shot of morphine that he delivered personally in the hospital emergency room. 
   
   Newman, 45, showed a stone face and declined to speak as he walked into the NYPD Special Victims Squad in Harlem — and again as he was led away in handcuffs four hours later. 
   
   The doctor, an Iraq War veteran and published author, was arraigned on sexual abuse and forcible touching charges in both cases Tuesday evening. 
   
   EXCLUSIVE: MOUNT SINAI DOCTOR ACCUSED OF EJACULATING ONTO PATIENT'S FACE 
   
   Newman, whose wife skipped the arraignment, was held on $150,000 bond over $50,000 cash bail. 
   
   Mount Sinai Hospital Dr. David Newman is accused of ejaculating on a 22-year-old patient’s face after incapacitating her with morphine injections. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News) 
   
   A second woman who went to Mount Sinai for medical help in September — four months before the alleged Jan. 11 incident surfaced this weekend with her own tale of sexual misconduct by the Montclair, N.J., doctor. 
   
   The 22-year-old woman contacted police Saturday and reported the earlier attack, a source told the Daily News. The report to cops came after The News broke the story on the masturbation incident. 
   
   The patient claimed she went to Mount Sinai suffering from a severe head cold Sept. 21, and Newman’s “treatment” included fondling her breast, according to court papers. 
   
   Newman has yet to make any comment on the vile charges against him. Hospital officials confirmed Tuesday that he remained on suspension as the investigation goes forward. 
   
   Authorities want a court order for a sample of Newman’s DNA to compare it with evidence taken from the gown that his alleged second victim was wearing on Jan. 11. 
   
   The woman said she used the gown to wipe the semen off her face, and placed it — along with a blanket that she used to clean up — inside a plastic bag, authorities said. 
   
   Dr. David Newman’s home in Montclair, N.J. The doctor is expected to surrender on Tuesday morning. (Ken Murray/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) 
   
   HENIOUS DEEDS COMMITTED BY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS 
   
   The patient was complaining of shoulder pain when she was taken to a private room inside the emergency room at Mount Sinai. 
   
   After nurses gave her two pain pills and a shot for inflammation, the patient was given a morphine shot by one of the nurses after complaining of more pain. 
   
   She was then told to change into a gown for X-rays. The woman was still dressed in the hospital garb when Newman walked into her room. 
   
   “I’m going to give you a shot of morphine,” the doctor told her, according to sources familiar with the woman’s claims. 
   
   The patient says she told the doctor that a nurse had already administered the drug, but she then felt a burning sensation in her arm that convinced her that Newman shot her up with more morphine anyway. 
   
   Dr. Newman, 40, is a hot shot emergency physician described as a leading voice for health care reforms. (Mount Sinai) 
   
   Newman then began fondling her breasts after the woman complained about pain on the right side of her chest, sources said. 
   
   Newman moved her bed away from the wall and positioned himself with his back toward the patient. She heard the sounds of someone masturbating — and then felt semen on her face, she claimed. 
   
   All the while, she was unable to react because she was heavily medicated, sources said. 
   
   A friend and fellow medical professional came to Newman’s defense. “I feel so bad for Dr. Newman being dragged through the mud on this,” said David Cundiff of Whistleblowerdoctor.org. 
   
   Newman is due back in court Feb. 23. 
   
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   Dr. David Newman giving a TED talk called “Truth That Lasts” in 2012. (Screen grab from YouTube/ TedX Talks) 
   
   David H. Newman is an emergency room doctor at New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital and an Iraq War veteran. The 45-year-old physician has edited online medical publications, taught at elite medical schools, and been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on PBS. 
   
   He blogged for the New York Times and the Huffington Post, and he wrote a book — “Hippocrates’ Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine” — exploring “the underbelly of modern medicine and the fraying of the patient-doctor bond.” Its jacket describes it as a “new paradigm to rebuild the bridge between physicians and their patients.” 
   
   This sterling reputation took a sharp turn Tuesday, when Newman was arrested and charged with sexual abuse in court, according to his New York City inmate file. 
   
   A criminal complaint cited by the New York Times, NBC and the New York Daily News accuses the doctor of drugging, groping and masturbating on a female patient as well as groping another in two separate incidents. 
   
   Authorities said a 29-year-old woman called the police Jan. 12 to recount an assault in Mount Sinai’s emergency room between midnight and 2 a.m. that day. 
   
   A law enforcement official told the Times under the condition of anonymity that Newman allegedly gave the woman an excess shot of morphine, causing her to partially lose consciousness while Newman fondled her breasts and ejaculated on her. 
   
   Afterward, the woman turned her semen-stained hospital gown over to police. 
   
   These accusations were first brought to light in the New York Daily News, which reported on Thursday that the New York Police Department and the Manhattan district attorney’s office were investigating the case. 
   
   Even though Newman had yet to be charged, the allegations were serious enough to bar him from continuing to work at Mount Sinai pending an outcome. 
   
   “We are aware of an allegation that has been made against one of our physicians,” the hospital said in a statement to the Daily News. “This is a matter under investigation and we are fully cooperating with the appropriate authorities. We take this matter very seriously and are conducting our own internal investigation.” 
   
   Mount Sinai officials told the Times on Tuesday that Newman has been suspended. 
   
   After news of the first incident surfaced, another woman reportedly came forward this past weekend with a similar account. A 22-year-old told police Saturday that she went to the hospital with a head cold in September and was groped by Newman for an extended period of time. 
   
   Newman’s attorney, John Wing, told NBC that Newman turned himself into police and volunteered a DNA sample. 
   
   “We plan on dealing with this in a responsible manner,” said Wing, adding that Newman is a “good man and excellent doctor” with a wife and two young children. 
   
   Newman also has received support from other medical professionals. 
   
   “I feel so bad for Dr. Newman being dragged through the mud on this,” physician David Cundiff told the Daily News. 
   
   A colleague of the physician’s wrote in an email to Jezebel: 
   
   There is no privacy in that ER. Period. Whoever is in the large rooms there divided by thin cotton curtains will hear exactly what’s going on. You hear more than you want to. Secondly, morphine doesn’t paralyze you. If you have enough to be too drugged to do anything, it means you are asleep — it’s not dissociative. 
   
   Newman is being kept in the Manhattan Detention Complex on $50,000 bail or $150,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court again Feb. 23. 
   
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target: – A renowned "TED-talker" and ER doctor at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital who served in Iraq and who advocates for improved doctor-patient relationships was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexually abusing two patients, the New York Times reports. David H. Newman, said to be in his 40s (the Times and New York Daily News note he's 45) first came to the attention of police when a woman in her 20s called them Jan. 12 and said Dr. Newman assaulted her the night before. She says Newman entered the private room in the ER where she was being examined for shoulder pain, injected her with morphine even after she told him nurses already had, then groped her and masturbated on her face while she was incapacitated, sources tell the Daily News. After that story broke, a second woman, 22, came forward Sunday and told authorities that during a September visit to the ER for a bad head cold, Newman had groped her breast, the paper notes. An assistant DA said that Newman—who CBS New York said "showed no emotion" as he entered the NYPD's Special Victims division Tuesday with his lawyer—must have been carrying around his own supply of morphine, as only nurses are typically given access to the drug, per CBS. "[Dr. Newman] has been suspended from Mount Sinai pending the outcome of the investigation, and we continue to cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities," a statement from the hospital says, per the Times. Authorities want a court order for Newman's DNA to compare to DNA on the hospital gown the shoulder pain victim wore; she says she used the gown to wipe his semen off her face, then stashed it as evidence, the Daily News notes. "That's horrifying," a South Bronx woman who says she's had multiple surgeries at Mount Sinai tells CBS. "To hear something like that is very scary … how many other women has this happened to?" A judge Tuesday night set Newman's bail at $50,000 cash or $150,000 bond, the Times notes. (Jezebel has received multiple emails of support for Newman.)