McGraw did not respond to requests for comment.
The Army referred to the statement released by Fort Hood, which was posted to its website Oct. 28.
It said the CID launched an investigation “within hours of a patient’s allegations against this former medical provider.” Fort Hood officials are contacting all of the doctor’s patients and providing them with the number for a dedicated call center to answer any questions, the statement added.
Cobos said he’s also planning to file a federal claim against the Army.
“Major Blaine McGraw used his uniform and his position as an Army doctor to prey on the very women who trusted him for care,” Cobos said in a statement. “The Army received repeated warnings and still chose to protect its reputation instead of the safety of its service members, their wives, and their daughters.”
This isn’t the first time the Army, or officials at Fort Hood, have been accused of ignoring or downplaying reports of sexual harassment or misconduct.
One of the most high-profile recent cases involved an Army specialist based at Fort Hood named Vanessa Guillén. After she was killed by a fellow soldier in 2020, an Army report found that the 20-year-old soldier had previously been sexually harassed by a supervisor but unit leadership took no action.
Previous complaints
Before he began practicing at the Texas base, McGraw treated patients at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii beginning in 2019, according to the lawsuit. One of his female patients there filed a complaint alleging that he had secretly recorded her pelvic examination on his cellphone, the lawsuit says.
“Rather than investigate or remove him from patient care, McGraw’s chain of command dismissed the complaint, laughed it off, and allowed him to continue practicing medicine,” the lawsuit says.
It accuses McGraw of preying on his patients in various ways. In one case, McGraw induced the labor of a pregnant patient “against her wishes,” the lawsuit says. In another, he told a patient during an examination that her “vagina looks pretty,” touched her sexual organs for no medical reason and made sexually suggestive remarks, according to the lawsuit. He referred to that patient’s clitoris, for instance, as her “happy spot,” the lawsuit says.
The allegations represent the “tip of the iceberg in a widening scandal that has left scores of military wives and daughters violated, voiceless and searching for answers,” the lawsuit says.
Before she met with CID investigators, the military spouse said in her lawsuit, she had been seen by McGraw about seven to eight times. She went to the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, where he practiced, for treatment of pelvic pain, hormone irregularities and concerns about uterine health, the lawsuit says.
After one procedure performed under sedation, McGraw made a comment about seeing all of her tattoos, which existed on parts of her body that he had no reason to look at, according to the lawsuit. In another instance, McGraw made an inappropriate comment to her during what should have been a routine breast exam, the lawsuit says,
“Your surgeon did a great job — your breasts look great!” he said, according to the lawsuit.
