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San Diego police reviewed 500 hours of security footage and charged (Luis) Ramos with touching 13 women’s breasts, genitals, groins and buttocks while they were unconscious. On Friday, a judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison for charges including sexual penetration and sexual battery of a medically incapacitated person. If justice was swift in the case, it had partly to do with how Ramos had access to patients. He was a technician in a dental office, not a medical doctor. Had he been a doctor who did the same thing to vulnerable patients, his consequences might have been different. His case might have been handed as a licensure matter, with state medical regulators treating him as an impaired professional in need of therapy, such as yoga, massages and horseback riding. (Edwards, 8/29)