SMC seeks longer suspension for 2 doctors for exploiting patient for sex

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SINGAPORE - The Singapore Medical Council on Wednesday appealed for longer suspension periods to be handed down to two philandering doctors who were found to haveColorectal surgeon Julian Ong had gi

ven the contact of a patient to his friend, psychiatrist Chan Herng Nieng, in a WhatsApp chat and told Dr Chan:"Feel free to play your game".

But Dr Ong and Dr Chan denied that they had colluded to exploit the patient and appealed to overturn their convictions. Mr Lee argued that the"game" in the text message referred to Dr Chan's practice of lowballing, or offering extremely low bids. Mr Sreenivasan argued that it cannot be inferred, based on screenshots of messages chosen by a"very vindictive complainant", that the two doctors were colluding to exploit a patient.

 

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