Muslim gynecologist in Canada banned from medicine for fondling female patients

Muslim gynecologist in Canada banned from medicine for fondling female patients

[link to montrealgazette.com]

Kamal Maraghi, 75, was found guilty by the Collège des médecins’ disciplinary committee last June. He had been accused by three patients, all young women at the time, of incidents occurring in 1995, 2006 and 2008.

During their examinations with Maraghi, all three women said they were never offered a gown to cover themselves, that he made quick back and forth motions in their vaginas and had touched their clitorises. One claimed he didn’t wear gloves during her examination.

Another woman, who was 20 at the time, said he caused her to have an orgasm on the examination table while asking inappropriate questions about her sex life.

“It was the worst moment of my entire life,” she testified, breaking down in tears.

In a strongly worded decision on his sanction, made public Thursday, the disciplinary committee said Maraghi abused his power and took advantage of the women during vulnerable moments.

“(Maraghi) made victims of these women,” the committee wrote in its decision. “Using them as objects he could abuse instead of treating them with the respect each one of them deserved.”

Permanently barring him from the Collège is one of the most severe sanctions the committee can impose.