Doctor Is Not A Sexual Predator – Just Iraqi

[naomi24]

Iraqi doctor who pestered two female colleagues with 'clumsy' chat-up lines is cleared of sexual misconduct due to his different cultural background. The disciplinary panel heard he lifted up one woman's top and bombarded another with suggestive messages between 2016 and March 2017.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5727055/Iraqi-doctor-tried-woo-married-female-GP-cleared-sexual-misconduct.html

A dangerously slippery slope? I think so.

[Mamyalynne]

Far too lenient an approach with this guy, he is old enough to know better and should have been dealt with in a harsher fashion.

[youngmafbog]

Can put glitter on it though Douglas.

Disgraceful finding. He should have had his collar felt by the old bill and banged up as Nailit has said.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Doesn't this decision contradict the principle that "ignorance" is no defence?

Or is that principle to be surrendered in to the dogma of multiculturalism - yet another victim in the "ratchet of small betrayals"?

[Islay]

Not acceptable and not fair to the women involved

[Sqad]

As far as we know, there were no inappropriate sexual advances to his patients and only confined to the staff at the surgery.

Inappropriate?....Yes.
Breech of patient/doctor etiquette? NO.
if he was British born...my opinion would be the same.
Overzealous sexual banter could have been dealt with "In House".

[nailit]

He lifted a womans top up Sqad, a little bit more than 'banter'?

[Sqad]

nailit.......maybe......I wasn't there to experience it in person, but even so, do you want him struck off?

[naomi24]

sqad, With the attitude he has towards women I'd be happy for him to be struck off. If, as a patient, I was aware of what he'd done there's no way I'd be booking appointments with him.

[nailit]

Well, its not up to me is it, but I cant see that many female patients will be clamouring for his services any time soon.

[Sqad]

naomi.....that would be your prerogative, but i bet that he has no shortage of appointments.
I have to disagree with striking him off as retribution.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//I wasn't there to experience it in person, but even so, do you want him struck off?//

I expect equal treatment before the law and quasi-judicial outfits like this "disciplinary panel".

Let's suppose that the doctor was a John Smith and the recipients of his attention were Muslimas. What would the likely punishment have been?


I speculate, of course.

[naomi24]

sqad, I wouldn't call it retribution. Rather health and safety. The man's a creep.

[Sqad]

naomi...True.
but the world is full of "creeps."

[nailit]

// What would the likely punishment have been? //
As I said earlier v-e, if he was a white British bloke he would have been collecting his bowl of porridge from the servery this morning.

[naomi24]

sqad, the world is indeed full of creeps, but that's no reason to allow this one to impose himself upon unsuspecting women.

[Sqad]

naomi...agreed, but we only disagree as to the punishment.

Nailit.....it would be the same outcome for a "white " doctor.

[nailit]

A white doctor wouldn't get away with 'cultural differences' as a defence.

[sp1814]

Even if there were cultural differences, it’s how these ‘clumsy chat up lines’ came across to the victim that needs to be addresses, rather than the point of view of the defendant.

If you have a manager who (say) continually gives you shoulder massages...to him (or her), it might be innocent, but to the person receiving them - if it makes them uncomfortable, then that’s what matters.

[naomi24]

sqad, it's not a punishment. With an attitude like his he is unsuitable for the job. He can't be trusted.

[naomi24]

sp. it's more than clumsy chat up lines. Read the OP.