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Doctor’s sex act shame
A GP has admitted to a disciplinary hearing that he masturbated in front of a webcam at his surgery.
Dr Damian Smith told a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said he committed the act in a consultation room at the Peel Group surgery.
He also admitted making a file of the recording and sending it to a third party.
As the Manx Independent reported at the time, he was arrested in January 2011. He was later released without charge, the Manchester hearing was told.
Elizabeth Dudley-Jones, counsel for the General Medical Council, said police discovered the file on Dr Smith’s personal laptop after practice bosses raised concerns on New Year’s Eve 2010.
She added: ‘It is the GMC’s case that Dr Smith’s behaviour was indecent, inappropriate and his conduct was likely to bring the medical profession into disrepute.’
The panel was told Dr Smith later sent a letter of apology to the practice partners in which he said he was ‘shamefully sorry’ and that his actions were ‘utterly stupid’.
He wrote that the incident ‘could easily have been avoided’ had he not taken his laptop into work.
In a letter to the GMC, the practice’s senior partner Malcom Guild said Dr Smith’s clinical competence had never been called into question and there was no history of improper behaviour involving patients.
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