Bring your sex toys in for me to see, doctor told woman
A GYNAECOLOGIST asked a patient to bring sex toys to his surgery so he could ‘look at them’ and questioned her about her love life, a medical tribunal heard yesterday.
Dr Iftekhar Ahmed, 51, is also accused of wiggling his tongue lewdly at the patient and offering to download pornography onto her laptop.
The woman – aged in her 40s – was said to have felt ‘afraid, shocked, disgusted and vulnerable’ by her treatment during consultations about safe sex at a community clinic.
She had initially gone to the Princess Royal Health Centre in Huddersfield for advice in 2013, the tribunal heard.
But the consultant gynaecologist is said to have asked her a series of inappropriate questions including what sexout
‘He offered to put porn on my laptop’
ual positions she adopted with her partner and whether she used vibrators and other aids.
Emma Gilsenan, lawyer for the General Medical Council, told the hearing: ‘He asked her what sex toys she used and whether she liked “licking” or words to that effect.
‘After asking her this he began putting his tongue out. He asked her whether she feels like having sex after an intimate examination was undertaken. He asked her if she liked pornography, and if she watched it.
‘He asked her if he could come over to her address and install pornography on her laptop.’
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester was told that at a consultation in 2015 Dr Ahmed conducted an intimate examination without offering her a chaperone.
He allegedly touched her with- her consent after having watched her undress. Dr Ahmed accessed her medical records to obtain her telephone number and called her on at least one occasion, the tribunal heard.
He asked the woman further inappropriate questions about her private life, and installing pornography. He also talked about what had been discussed during the consultation and urged her not to tell anyone, saying he would ‘be in trouble’, it was alleged.
Miss Gilsenan said the woman – referred to as Patient A – felt ‘afraid, shocked, disgusted and vulnerable’ but was worried about speaking about it because he was an authority figure.
The lawyer said Dr Ahmed, of Alwoodley, Leeds, accepts that he undertook intimate examinations and asked about sexual positions and toys, but claims his actions were clinically justified and denies asking her to bring sex toys to the clinic.
The panel was told Dr Ahmed accepts asking about licking and wiggling his tongue but denies this was sexually motivated. He also denies performing an intimate inspection without her consent or watching her undress.
He accepts he asked her about watching pornography but denies offering to visit her home to install it. He accepts accessing her medical records to obtain her telephone number.
But Patient A told the tribunal: ‘There was no misunderstanding, I knew exactly what he meant when he asked me these things. He said he could come to my house and download porn onto my laptop. I just wanted to get out, get my medication and my treatment.’
Dr Ahmed, who is originally from Bangladesh, is not attending the hearing and is not legally represented.
The panel was told he was alerted to the tribunal but he has since moved away from the UK and is believed to be living in America with his family.
The hearing continues.