A government doctor/specialist is being charged in court for molesting a patient: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/1/12/courts/10244849&sec=courts. Will the government provide the fund? I don’t think so and I am pretty sure that this doctor do not have any indemnity insurance to cover for himself (being a civil servant). BTW this will be a criminal charge and not a medical negligence.
As I have said before, litigation rate is going up everywhere especially in Klang Valley and cases like this are going to increase day by day. As doctors, we should be very careful with what we do. Make sure that we have a chaperone every time in our room or while you are examining a female patient. I am not sure what actually happened in the case below but I presume that he did a pelvic examination on this pregnant patient without first informing the patient and without a chaperone. If they have charged him in court means that the police has found enough evidence.
The government has already advised all government doctors to take their own medical indemnity insurance. It may be made compulsory soon. I will also advise female doctors to have a chaperone when examining a male patient. Vice versa can also happen !!
Doc charged with molesting pregnant patient
KUALA LUMPUR: An obstetrician has been charged at a magistrate’s court here with molesting his pregnant patient.
Dr Mohd Suhaidin Che Ngah, 36, claimed trial to using criminal force to outrage the modesty of a 27-year-old woman by touching her private parts at Hospital Sungai Buloh at 2.15pm on Nov 11 last year.
He seemed unfazed when the charges were read, even smiling throughout the hearing.
The offence, under Section 354 of the Penal Code, carries a maximum 10 years’ jail term or a fine or whipping, or any two such punishments, upon conviction.
DPP Nur Hidayah Raihan Md Nasir proposed bail at RM7,000.
However, Dr Mohd Suhaidin’s brother, who was his surety, sought a lower sum.
Magistrate Namirah Hanum Mohamad Albaki set bail at RM5,500 with one surety and fixed March 26 for mention.
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Scenario:
1. The complainant was deeply in love with the Dr. However the Dr rejected her. So fix him up lah!!!
2. Both were lovers and there is a breakup- fix him up!
Solution: quickly amend the law – only lady Dr can examine/treat female patients!!!!
BS.
quickly amend the law – make harrassment have serious repercussions – mandate chaperones.
lovebird:
I am referring to your statement”
Solution: quickly amend the law – only lady Dr can examine/treat female patients!!!!
your suggestion of a solution is totally absurd and non-sensical
there are many capable male obstetrician and gynaecologists out there who are well established and well respected.
bear in mind that in a life-and-death situation would you rather wait for a female doctor to come to the rescue and ask the male doctor who is just nearby to stand and wait while your bleeding/dying family member is suffering
your statement is utterly gender-biased
it also shows how narrow minded your views are with regards to the medical profession. Many doctors join O&G because they have a passion of helping the pregnant lady and baby in distress. Because of people like you, many O&G doctors are quitting the job and in the future where recruitment of O&G doctors are already falling, there might not be anyone left to help our poor suffering mothers
Ask your conscience.
Hello pt
I was sarcastic-lah!!!!
Man… Pt is really really uptight! Relax a bit -lah! Don’t keep your butt cheeks clenched all the time!
Could tell that he was just kidding even from the first sentence!
“ask your conscience”…. my god…
Ideally, yes, chaperone is a MUST whenever a doctor examine a patient of opposite sex. This was taught at the very first lesson of medical ethics during medical students era. This is to protect both the patient and the doctor.
However, to those who had experience working in labour ward as houseman, this is not that practical. Usually midwives, JM and SN are so busy that, they won’t come to be your chaperone! Same goes to your lady colleague doctors, they have their own patient to look after. At many instances, pelvic examinations are done by male doctors to assess Bishop scoring alone, without chaperone (you can hardly find any chaperone). If you asked them to be your chaperone, you might as well asked them to do VE on your behalf. Another situation would be episiotomy repair, nobody will stay with you for 10 minutes for the sake of chaperone-ing! (For MO, registrars, specialist, consultant – no problem, usually there will be nurses or female HO around when they examining patient)
Lastly, I need to emphasize that it is illegal to examine patient of opposite sex without chaperone. I’m just here to share some “hard-ship” faced by male doctors in obstertrics practice.
As I said, be very careful. Usually episiotomy suturing is not a problem as the patient won’t be bothered after she had a painful delivery process. The problem is when you do pelvic examination ante natally.
a female ho was around. the doctor was a victim of pt’s crazy made up story.
I wonder how the police found a case if that is the story. I am sure the police have done proper investigations before they charged the doctor.
I am a lawyer. Dr Paga you mean Malaysian Police! Investigating? Ha! ha! joke of the day!
haha, agreed but when it involves professionals like doctor, they do investigate.
no laughing matter, march 2011 saw one of our MA sentenced to 3 yrs in jail for molesting, he had a chaperone ( a JM who allegedly did not perform well in court), he was jailed 4 days after his first baby was born, yes kkm cannot help because it’s criminal charges not civil
may i know the detail regarding that case? or if possible any articles regarding that matter, that would be helpful.
agree with you, it’s not laughing matter. esp if it is happened to someone closed to you. and i hope it wont happened to this doctor
Actually cases like this happens everywhere but most of the time police do not find any evidence to charge the doctor/MA. I did have one case like this in my hospital before but the police did not charge the doctor as they found no evidence.
Junior H.O : [busy inserting fingers during V.E]
Senior H.O : [busy reading pagalavan.com] dei bro, apparently a gynae is being sued in court for doing a V.E without getting consent
Junior H.O: what’s ‘consent’ ?
*Look on Senior H.O* priceless
Some pt just find ways to make some doctors life a living hell..But i still agree with Dr Paga ‘ s advice..get a chaperone !!
Well, well, well!
When you have hare-brained people in control of the country, this is what you get.
The patients’ health will be compromised!
They’ll go in slightly sick but come out in a critical condition!
Has anyone else heard about this:
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2012/01/29/health-officials-to-probe-sleepy-surgeons/
That’s what happens when you get rostered for more than 20 hours at a stretch. The human body is not a machine. The surgeons are not incompetent, only human. It’s the government to blame for making them work those hours. It would only be incompetence on the surgeons’ part if they were sleepy because they were up partying the night before or something.
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