Doctor jailed for sexually molesting patients
Published: 10 May 12 11:28 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/40748/20120510/
A Swedish doctor has been jailed for molesting his female patients after 11 women reported him for his sexual advances during examinations.
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He also allegedly raped one woman, according to the Expressen newspaper.
The 41-year-old was arrested in January and held in custody for a month. It was during the subsequent investigation when more people came forward and reported the doctor for inappropriate touching during examinations.
The incidents occurred between 2008 and 2010 in four separate medical clinics around Sweden.
It is also alleged that the doctor forced some of the women to touch his own genitals and in several of the cases the victims have been disabled or elderly, according to Expressen.
Two of the women had been molested six times each before they sought justice.
The doctor denied all crimes, and stated in court that any touching of the women was accidental.
On Wednesday, the man was sentenced to two years in prison for sexual molestation and sentenced to pay the women damages, which range from 5,000 to 55,000 kronor ($720-$7,930).
His license to practice medicine has been revoked.
“The woman that I’ve spoken with felt that she has been vindicated in the court’s decision. I suppose the other women will feel similarly as time passes,” said Lucie H Skantz, one of the women’s lawyers, to Expressen.
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Obviously you are a man or you would know that gynecological exams are not pleasurable for the patient but quite uncomfortable and even sometimes painful. The gynecologist's touch should be impersonal as it is meant to examine the patient's parts, not elicit a sexual response. The most sensitive part of the female anatomy rarely has medical problems and seldom do medical examinations legitimately involve touching the clitoris at all. Accidental touches can happen, but actions like stroking or caressing (especially repeated stroking) are medically unnecessary and completely inappropriate. Imagine the difference between a regular handshake and one where the person's touch lingers and caresses your hand... focusing on the sensitive spot inside your wrist. If you do not have an intimate relationship with the person doing that to you, you would likely feel uncomfortable at best. Not having male parts myself, I'm not sure what else to compare it to, but I'm sure that if you had your male bits examined by a doctor, you would know the difference between an impersonal medical exam touch and a touch meant to elicit a sexual response.
The problem is they need to change the rules that require a female nurse available at the beginning, middle and end of the examinations to ensure no wrong doing towards the patient. It not only protects the patient but it protects the doctor as well.