Heart surgeon who grabbed colleague’s breast and ‘pinged her bra strap’ struck off

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24557616.newcastle-surgeon-dr-de-rita-struck-off-grabbing-colleagues-chest/

Posted by LOTDT

13 Comments

  1. Odd-Neighborhood8740 on

    Good. But interestingly enough a lot of doctors do worse or similar and keep their jobs

  2. Enflamed-Pancake on

    I genuinely can’t fathom doing that to a woman. Like I’ve worked with women I’ve been very attracted to, and it wouldn’t even cross my mind to do that. Few fucking screws loose there.

  3. Child heart surgeon who was a significant resource to the hospital was struck off after six months of sexual harassment against a woman, which included grabbing her breasts, pinging her bra-strap, and making hand gestures of pinching her nipples and then accusing her of blushing.

  4. Why wasn’t he prosecuted for sexual assault? He actually got off lightly. What a disgusting creep.

  5. It ought not to be beyond the wit of man to find a midway point between doing nothing and letting him get away with it, and striking him off and throwing away a highly trained heart surgeon at a time of record queues for treatment.

    Perhaps he could be restricted to operating only on (or with) men for an extended period, or used to answer 111 calls or work the late night drunk shift in A&E, all while undergoing a training course in how to be around women without pinging their undergarments.

  6. Shite. I don’t think I’ve seen non-consensual bra-strap-snapping since I was in school when I was 13. And even then it made me uncomfortable, and I was a boy.

  7. Sad-Independence9753 on

    Great because we live in a society where a woman can make an allegation without proof, we lose a heart surgeon.