A Fayette woman testified Tuesday

that she was scared after what she called an inappropriate exam by her

gynecologist in January of last year.

Cindy Anita Head, 41, testified

in court Monday that Dr. Orlando Cano did not wear gloves or use a light

while he was conducting the physical exam, both procedures which she had

become accustomed to during previous yearly exams.

Cano, who is no longer practicing

medicine according to officials, also conducted the exam without the presence

of a female nurse, Head said.

Cano is on trial for one count

of sexual battery and one count of reckless conduct for his alleged actions

during the exam. He has pled not guilty to the charges, which are both

misdemeanors.

Although defense attorney Stephen

Roberts pointed out that Head did not share her concerns immediately after

the exam with a member of Cano's staff, Head said that was because she

was "in shock."

"I was scared," Head

said, adding later that she filed a complaint with the Georgia Board of

Examiners.

"I wanted to try to find

out why I wasn't given proper care and why I was taken advantage of,"

Head added.

During opening statements,

Cano's other attorney, Lynne Borsuk, said the case centered on Head's

claim, which she contended was false.

"This is a case about

one disgruntled patient and her complaint snowballing out of control,"

Borsuk said. Head did not ask Cano to halt the examination at any time,

Borsuk added.

But State Court Solicitor Steve

Harris said there will be testimony during the trial that Cano tried to

convince a nurse to say she was present during the exam although she was

not.

Cano even told that nurse that

he would send her to surgical assistant's school, but he eventually fired

her, Harris said.

Head testified that she never

saw or heard Cano put on medical gloves before the exam. She said she

had become concerned when she first entered the exam room and saw no instruments

out for the doctor to collect a specimen for her pap smear.

Head said she confronted Cano

about the incident a month after the exam and he claimed he was nothing

but a gentleman and that he acted appropriately. She said he threw some

items off a desk during the conversation, which Head attempted to record

using a "wire" given to her by an agent of the Georgia Board

of Medical Examiners. Head said she was told the taped conversation was

not discernible.

"I was told it was not

of any use," Head testified.

Various medical records from

Head's file at Dr. Cano's office have been entered as evidence, but the

contents of those records was in dispute during Head's testimony. Although

the records indicated Head had another medical complaint, Head contended

that she was only there for her yearly exam and she made no other complaints

to Cano.

The date and time of some of

the medical tests were also in question, since the results from the pap

smear indicated that the specimen was collected just after 10 a.m., which

was before Head had gone