Hospital suspends registrar who said ‘some women deserve to be raped’
Eastern Health initially supported the doctor, but is now reviewing his employment following a public outcry
The emergency medicine registrar who said “some women deserve to be raped” has been suspended from work while his employer investigates.
Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee was handed a six-week ban by the Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal last month after he admitted to posting violent and sexist comments in an online forum.
In December 2016, in a series of comments on a technology website called Hardware Zone, Dr Lee wrote that a woman should “be abandoned in India and repeatedly raped”.
Dr Lee, who was working at Royal Hobart Hospital at the time, also said: “If my marriage fell apart, it would not end in divorce. It would end in murder.”
