Australian doctors having sex with patients from New Zealand will be judged

Australian doctors having sex with patients from New Zealand will be judged

A video made by a New Zealand senior physician who provides him having sex with a patient will be submitted as evidence in legal proceedings before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal on Monday (08/12/2013) this.

The doctor, a man, whose name and details of the case are covered and known simply as "Dr. H", is alleged to have paid his patient, a woman, at 35. 000 New Zealand dollars (or approximately USD 300 million) in an attempt to make her pull back aduannya to the Health and Disability Commission (HDC).

Fairfax NZ News on Monday, report, Director of the Tribunal, Aaron Martin, told the court that in June 2008, Dr H start a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient, whose name can not be disclosed permanently.

The doctor continued action after she took care of the women and they traveled to Australia together. The doctor was having the "secret" with regular sexual intercourse, intimate writing notes to her ", and on one occasion made a video recording of the two of them having sex".

Majeleis Tribunal member, Bruce Corkill, said they would watch the video.

Martin said the patient "will find it difficult and stressful to give evidence, not just because of the video footage and emotional things, but also because he had a history of acute anxiety."

In February 2009, the wife of Dr. H knows the affair that occurred in Australia. The wife paid 900 dollars to the woman to return to New Zealand. The woman seeing a medical professional and other complaints to HDC.

Martin said, Dr. H women's pay 5,000 New Zealand dollars and the woman sent an e-mail to the HDC who says she was emotionally attached (with Dr H), "but there was no sexual relationship".

In May 2009, that he pay her 15,000 dollars and do another two payments total number of 15,000 in February 2010.

Dr H were charged with professional misconduct by a number of details, including allegations that he held intercourse with the woman. The trial, which will be attended by Dr H and his wife, is expected to last five days