A surgeon who was found to have stripped naked in a toilet stall and told a colleague they had sex there has been removed from medical records.
Dr Samuel Stephan was working at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth when a junior colleague who had been communicating with him online arranged to meet him in the hospital toilets.
The man said he had arranged to meet there as a mutually convenient location, had no plans to have sex with him, and the panel heard he was left “shocked, numb and scared”.
It was reported that Dr Stefan did not apologize to either the man or the two other people who were sexually harassed. He was not represented at last month's hearing and did not attend.
It was also discovered that Dr Stefan, a colorectal surgeon, had tried to kiss another colleague and exposed himself to it.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPTS) panel also found that he repeatedly tried to touch a third colleague's thigh and penis while they were working on the hospital wards.
“His behavior was sexual harassment towards [the men] and constituted a serious violation of this expected standard,” the panel concluded.
The first man reported the allegations to police, but the second and third male victims did not report their allegations “out of embarrassment”, the commission heard.
He was reportedly found guilty of a “very serious” offence.
The panel concluded that Dr Stefan would be removed from the medical register with immediate effect following the hearing.
