Gig Harbor-based doctor who trains military medics accused of cruelty, sexual harassment

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Gig Harbor-based doctor who trains military medics accused of cruelty, sexual harassment
Adam Ashton
June 9, 2015

A retired Army doctor from Gig Harbor is under scrutiny for allegedly providing alcohol to military personnel and instructing them to experiment on each other while preparing for deployments at medical training events in several states and the United Kingdom.

A Georgia congressman has asked the Pentagon to investigate complaints about John Henry Hagmann, whose medical license was suspended in March by Virginia’s Board of Medicine. The board took the action after reviewing complaints about Hagmann’s practices stemming from incidents in 2012 and 2013, which included accusations of sexual harassment.

Students have complained that Hagmann instructed them to perform invasive procedures on one another, insert catheters into one another, organized “shock labs” that involved withdrawing large amounts of blood from medical students and had his students inject an anesthetic drug called ketamine to observe its effects on each other, according to the Virginia Board of Medicine.

On several occasions, those experiments reportedly took place while students were under the influence of alcohol. In one instance, they reportedly were instructed to drink eight ounces of rum within 30 minutes before being injected with ketamine.