Senior NHS doctor suspended after touching medical students and telling one ‘the only way to shut a woman up is to kiss her’
A SENIOR NHS doctor has been suspended after inappropriately touching two medical students — telling one “the only way to shut a woman up is to kiss her”.
Dr Bassel Hayssam El-Osta smacked the bottoms of both of his victims and referred to them as his “two beautiful girls”.
A disciplinary tribunal heard the senior orthopaedic registrar took advantage of the women, named just Ms A and Ms B for legal reasons. He put his arm around the waist of them both in 2015, before slapping Ms A’s bottom.
A month later, he touched Ms B’s hand and said, “the only way to shut a woman up is to kiss her”. The doctor kissed her on the lips without her permission telling her: “You can’t say no to me.”
He also told her he had given a female patient an orgasm while carrying out a vaginal examination and that he had wanted to have sex with some of his patients.
A tribunal in 2017 heard Dr El-Osta, who worked at the Royal Free Hospital in Camden, North London, denied the allegations, but was suspended for 12 months.
A review last year added six months. Now a panel in Manchester has suspended him for a further nine months after deciding he is still unfit to practice.
Harriet Tighe, from the GMC, said a statement by Dr El-Osta, who trained in Russia, “lacks any real substance”.
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