Australian medical board suspends Singaporean doctor for offensive statements on Hardware Zone

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Dr Lee Kwan Chen, age 31, faced the Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal over claims from the Medical Board of Australia that he had engaged in professional misconduct because of several offensive and inappropriate comments he made on forums on...

he received a six-week long ban from practicing medicine, but he has also been required to attend classes in ethical behaviour and communications, specifically when using social media.

In December 2017, Dr Lee commented on an article about a lawyer in Egypt who had received a three-year jail sentence for because he had said that as a punishment for wearing torn jeans, women deserved to be raped.Only one month later, on commenting if his marriage would fail, he wrote, “it would not end in divorce, it would end in murder”.

Dr Lee attempted to clarify his controversial comments, by saying that what he said in 2016 was in “the context of a socio-political situation in Singapore/ Malaysia where as a result of certain events, a local female college student made disparaging remarks about servicemen”., even as the doctor acknowledged that these comments may be viewed by some to be misogynistic, racist, or unduly provocative he claimed that his perspectives did not change how he cared for his patients.

 

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