Warning for Shropshire doctor who made joke about rape
A Shropshire doctor who joked that rape victims should “enjoy it” and that an elderly patient should be dead has been handed a warning.
Dr Sameer Khan had been working as a locum consultant in acute medicine at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital when he made the comments to a junior female colleague, a misconduct hearing was told.
Shropshire and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) said Dr Khan had not worked there since the allegations were made in 2019.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing concluded that Dr Khan had committed “misconduct which was serious”, but accepted that he had changed his behaviour since the allegations came to light and should be allowed to continue to practice.
The panel also ruled that Dr Khan had no case to answer in respect of separate allegations that he had asked junior doctors to falsify patient records, saying there was not sufficient evidence.
A report on the hearing said Dr Khan accepted he made a comment to the effect of, “If you are being raped, why fight it? Why not enjoy it?”, to a female junior doctor identified as Doctor A.
Dr Alexis Dite, counsel for the General Medical Council (GMC), told the hearing that Dr Khan’s colleagues and seniors “considered that the rape comment alone was outrageous and was enough to end his contract at the hospital”.
Dr A was, in her own words, “shocked” and “alarmed” by the comment, Dr Dite added.
