Mindy Howerton v. Harbin Clinic

How courts have described this case

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• stating a claim for IIED after doctor exposed his pubic hair to her and discussed her pubic area with other staff during plaintiff’s gynecological procedure
• denying summary judgment where the plaintiff sought counseling for stress, anxiety, depression; experienced physical manifestations of distress such as alopecia and migraines; and was prescribed medication
• “Georgia’s definition of [outrageous conduct] provides a high degree of tolerance for a wide variety of questionable conduct.”
• “To demonstrate that the emotional distress [he] suffered was severe, a plaintiff must show, at the very least, that physical and/or mental manifestations of that distress required [him] to seek medical or psychological treatment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).