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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1994

TO CONDUCT A CHAPERON

"IT MAKES GOOD COMMON SENSE FOR MALE DOCTORS MEDICAL EXAMINATION ON A FEMALE PATIENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A

ANY INVOLVES EXAMINATION IF THE

H

CONTACT, SHE SAID.

то

BE CARRIED

OUT

DIRECT BODY

EMPHASISED

WONG MRS REQUIRED BY THEIR CODES OF PRACTICE TO REGARD THE INTERESTS OF PATIENTS AS THEIR FIRST PRIORITY.

THAT BOTH DOCTORS

AND

DENTISTS

WERE

THEIR

EVER

ARE

ALLEGED OF

THEIR

"IF

HAVING DISREGARDED THEY

THE PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO PATIENTS, THEY MAY BE SUBJECT TO

MEDICAL AND DENTAL OF THE SANCTIONS

COUNCILS DISCIPLINARY

"

RESPECTIVELY, SHE SAID.

FEMALE PATIENTS CASES STATED THE DETAILS

REFERRING ΤΟ THE INDECENT ASSAULT OF MENTIONED BY MISS LAU IN HER QUESTION, MRS WONG OF SOME CASES.

THE FIRST

INVOLVED CASE

A DOCTOR WHO

WAS

CHARGED

IN THE

DISTRICT COURT WITH SIX COUNTS OF INDECENT ASSAULT.

THE CASE WAS DISMISSED ON MARCH 18, 1994 AFTER THE COURT HIM NOT GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES.

FOUND

THE SECOND CASE WAS CONSIDERED BY THE MEDICAL COUNCIL OF

ORDINANCE, THE

REGISTRATION TO

MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY HEARING HELD ON NOVEMBER 4, 1993.

KONG,

PURSUANT

IN

HONG

AT

A

THE

THE ACCUSED WAS "GUILTY OF HIS COURSE OF

AFTER HEARING EVIDENCE FROM THE COMPLAINANT AND DOCTOR, THE

WAS SATISFIED THAT THE DOCTOR COUNCIL IMPROPER,

INDECENT IMMORAL

BEHAVIOUR OR PROFESSIONAL DUTIES TO HIS PATIENT (THAT THAT IN RELATION TO THE FACTS ALLEGED HE HAS BEEN GUILTY OF MISCONDUCT IN A PROFESSIONAL RESPECT".

IS, THE COMPLAINANT), AND

THE COUNCIL FURTHER

ORDERED

THE DOCTOR'S NAME BE

REMOVED OF WHICH FROM THE MEDICAL REGISTER FOR SIX MONTHS, THE APPLICATION WOULD BE SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS SUBJECT TO THE DOCTOR NOT BEING FOUND GUILTY OF PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT DURING THE SAID PERIOD.

TO WITHDRAW HIS'

DECISION AND

COUNCIL'S

SUBSEQUENT ΤΟ THE DOCTOR'S RECENT DECISION APPEAL TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, THE MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY ORDER WERE GAZETTED ON JUNE 3, 1994.

THE THIRD CASE WAS HEARD BY THE DENTAL COUNCIL OF HONG KONG,

AT ACCORDANCE WITH THE DENTISTS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE, DISCIPLINARY ENQUIRY HELD ON FEBRUARY 22 AND APRIL 21, 1994.

J

IN

ITS

WAS SATISFIED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE ENQUIRY, THE COUNCIL

COURT OF THAT THE DENTIST IN QUESTION WAS "CONVICTED BY THE SUPREME

1986 OF 17 CHARGES OF INDECENT BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA ON DECEMBER 4

OF BRITISH ASSAULT AND SEXUAL ASSAULT; AND THAT THE COURT OF APPEAL

ALLOWED THE ON SEPTEMBER 23. 1987 CANADA HAD COLUMBIA,

DENTIST'S APPEAL AGAINST SENTENCE AND IMPOSED A SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT OF TWO YEARS LESS ONE DAY WITH PROBATION FOR TWO YEARS".

/THE COUNCIL