By Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent
A woman told a jury how consultant paediatrician Michael Salmon fondled her breasts "to check for breast cancer" when she visited him as a 15-year-old with migraines.
She said he sent a nurse out of the consulting room, then told her to remove her top and bra before examining her.
She said: "I was stunned. I didn't understand what was going on. I have buried this stuff for a long, long time."
She told Reading Crown Court how she felt at the time: "He's a doctor, I'm a child trying to believe him that what he is doing is right."
The woman, who is now 48, said she did not report it to police, but did tell her school friends.
"I spoke to school friends at the time because we were all being touched at school. We were 'here's another one'."
She reported Salmon to police in 2013 when her mother read his name in a newspaper.
She said she had earlier had seven months of counselling over alleged abuse by another man connected to her boarding school. She did not mention Salmon during the counselling sessions.
That suspect was never charged because he was old and suffering from dementia, the court was told.
Defence barrister Sarah Jones suggested the witness had reported Salmon only because she was frustrated by the lack of prosecution against the other man.
The witness said that was not true. She had not mentioned Salmon during counselling because she was concerned with the abuser at her school.
She said: "I'm not out for punishment. I'm speaking today because I didn't speak out when I was 15."
Salmon, 79, from Salisbury, was struck off the medical register in 1991 after admitting indecently assaulting three young patients.
In the current trial he denies 16 charges involving young female patients: three rapes, 11 indecent assaults and two of arranging abortions.
The alleged offences were committed in the 1970s and 80s.
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