GP cleared of misconduct over nightclub sex with patient
The tribunal accepted that the GP did not immediately recognise the woman.
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A GP has been cleared of professional misconduct for having sex with a patient in a nightclub toilet, with a tribunal finding he did not recognise her until they became intimate.
Throughout a five-year legal saga, the Melbourne GP maintained that he had only recognised his patient part way through sex in the disabled toilet of St Kilda’s Hotel Esplanade in 2019.