Married A&E doctor ‘had affairs with two patients’
A MARRIED doctor had affairs with two patients and met up with one for sex after returning from a family trip to Amsterdam, a tribunal heard.
Father-of-two Richard MacCallum, 54, met the women when they were admitted to A&E.
One of them was a widow known as Patient A, the other a 63-year-old divorcee – Patient B – who sent him a text saying: “Making love was exciting.”
But General Medical Council lawyer Jeremy Lasker said Patient B was initially fazed by his advances. He said MacCallum “started to touch her in an overtly sexual manner” in hospital and that “she was subdued by this”. Mr Lasker said Patient B claimed one romp “followed a trip Dr MacCallum made to Amsterdam with one of his children”.
Patient B’s daughter reported MacCallum, a Stirling Royal Infirmary consultant, in 2016. He was then probed over Patient A, who died at 50 in 2015.
MacCallum, from Dollar, Clackmannanshire, denies sexually motivated misconduct and the hearing in Manchester continues.
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