London-based
Nigerian Medical Doctor, Chizoba Christopher Uzoh, a GP at Murdishaw Health
Centre in Runcorn, has been banned for 12 months for pestering one of his
female patients with romantic messages and sending flowers to her home.
He wrote:
"I saw you and I
liked you and thought maybe we could go on a date. I am single and looking for
a serious relationship and not intending to mess about."
"I’ve been feeling
like a school boy meeting a girl he fancied for the first time. I haven’t felt
this way in a while. I hope it would be possible to make you mine someday."
"My heart is pure,
I care, I hope it would be possible to make you mine someday."
"How is it possible
that a good-looking guy who is a doctor, who has a job with huge earning
potential waiting for him in Toronto, who was the best graduating medical
doctor in his medical school, who started out as a urological surgeon with
several well-cited scientific publications before he decided to be a GP for
personal reasons, who thinks you beautiful and special wants you and you
wouldn’t give him a chance?
"I’ve been in
Toronto sorting things out and I couldn’t stop thinking of you."
She then replied:
"I just feel like
your being too full on, I’ve only met you once and I was your patient!"
"Hey! Look as
flattered as I was at the start that you took an interest and was happy to chat
and get to know you, it all got too much too quick.
"It was one thing
getting my number through my medical records, but I feel you went too far with
getting my address without my permission and I will be honest it’s scared me a
little, because I do not give anyone my address for my own safety and the thought
of someone being able to get it so easily when I have put my trust in a doctor
is unnerving…"
After a five-day
hearing in Manchester, The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service then claimed
that his conduct was “sexually motivated” during his text messages, voice
mails, spree of phone calls, and posts
to her home address and was found unsuitable to practice.
The tribunal
decided it was sufficient punishment to suspend his registration for 12 months
after the General Medical Council called for Dr Uzoh to be removed.
A spokesperson, on
behalf of NHS Halton CCG and Murdishaw Health Centre, said:
"Patient safety is
paramount to us and all patient complaints are taken extremely seriously; as
soon as Murdishaw Health Centre received this complaint we took immediate and
appropriate action.
"The locum GP was
suspended from all duties which brought him into contact with patients and we
reported the complaint to NHS England for investigation."
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