A risqué rheumatologist in Canada lost his medical license after being found guilty of sexually abusing two patients, including one woman he questioned about her sex life and the size of her husband’s penis.
Dr. Martin Lee, who practiced in Mississauga and Pickering, was stripped of his license on Thursday by a five-member committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Toronto Star reports.
The panel earlier this year found Lee guilty of sexually abusing two patients, including one woman to whom he showed a gay porn magazine before asking her about sadism and masochism. Lee also rubbed his groin against another patient’s hip while giving her an injection and by “using sexually explicit and crude language when asking her personal questions about her sex life,” the Star reports.
While treating one patient for fibromyalgia and chronic muscle pain, the panel determined, Lee asked her several questions about her sex life and gave unsolicited details of his own.
“Frequency, and I guess methods or types of positions that he would engage in with his wife or wanted to,” the woman testified.
Lee also showed the woman a pornographic magazine while at an appointment during Gay Pride Week, she testified.
“What is S&M?” Lee asked. “What do they get from it? How could two men do that?”
Another patient who said Lee made sexual remarks while rubbing against her hip testified that he sought explicit details of her personal life.
“Is you husband’s c–k big?” the woman recalled Lee asking her. “Can he still put in my p—y?”
Lee’s attorneys, meanwhile, were seeking a six-month suspension of his medical license. The committee also ordered that he post a letter of credit for $32,000 for potential therapy costs for his victims and pay $20,500 for the cost of the proceedings, the Star reports.
“The committee hopes that its order in this case will send a clear message to other victims of sexual abuse by physicians that reporting such behavior is encouraged and will be taken seriously,” the panel’s decision read.