The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
Sex pest avoids action over assault
A sex pest surgeon who forced himself on a junior doctor is to escape punishment after a court bid to take disciplinary action against him was rejected by judges.
Dr Milind Mehta, 48, asked the woman into his office at Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin to discuss orthopaedics – only to press himself against her chest before kissing her repeatedly on the neck and shoulder.
She complained to senior colleagues at NHS Grampian and Dr Mehta, an orthopaedic surgeon, faced being suspended or struck off.
A disciplinary panel found him guilty of sexually motivated misconduct but he was allowed to keep practising after they heard he arranged
“He was guilty of sexually motivated misconduct”
a series of public events to outline his own misconduct in the hope of preventing future sexual harassment in the NHS.
The General Medical Council (GMC) went to the Court of Session in a bid to overturn the decision not to punish him.
GMC lawyers said that the decision did not protect the public from Dr Mehta and no reasonable disciplinary panel could have concluded it was appropriate to take no action against him.
However, Lady Dorrian ruled the decision was correct given the surgeon’s move to out himself as a sex pest in a bid to educate others in the profession.