GP loses licence for sex with patient

A “PREDATORY” doctor who groomed two vulnerable female patients, had sex with one of them and inappropriately touched another, has had his registration cancelled.

Former Springwood GP Muhammad Azam paid a private investigator to get the patient with whom he had sex to retract her complaint against him.

Dr Azam was complicit in her being harassed at home by private investigator Keith Schafferius and he condoned her being offered a

$2000 reward if she did so, a tribunal found.

Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal deputy president Judge Suzanne Sheridan said Dr Azam (above) also harassed the patient by going to her home and her children’s school. It resulted in him being charged with stalking and put on a restraining order, she said.

The woman was anonymously sent letters for her to sign and send to the doctor’s registration authority, saying she had falsely stated she and the GP had had sex.

The tribunal cancelled Dr Azam’s registration for professional misconduct and ordered he be disqualified from applying for registration for four years.

Judge Sheridan said Dr Azam showed no remorse.