In 2019, a male doctor was convicted of sexual harassment. He was fired from the hospital and lost his medical license. Now the administrative court announces that the decision is revoked and that the doctor gets his ID back. In 2016, a doctor at Södersjukhuset in Stockholm was reported for rape by a female employee. That caused several other women at the hospital to raise the alarm about the man, who is in his 40s. Two years later, he was reported again after accompanying a woman home after a nightclub visit and becoming violent. In 2019, the man was sentenced in the district court for assault, breach of domestic peace, sexual harassment and violent resistance. In connection with being charged, he was also fired from Södersjukhuset. Had an alcohol addiction The total sentence would have been six months in prison, but because the man was at risk of having his medical license revoked, he received a reduced sentence. The penalty was instead a suspended sentence and community service. In May of last year, the Health and Medical Service’s responsibility board announced that the man’s doctor’s license was being revoked due to serious criminality, which they did not think was consistent with the role of a doctor. The man appealed and now the administrative court overturns the decision on the grounds that more than four years have passed since the crimes were committed. The verdict also shows that the man, at the time of the crimes, had an alcohol addiction. The woman: “Disappointing” The newspaper Mitt i has spoken to the woman who in 2016 reported the doctor for rape. She describes it as “disappointing” that the man received a lighter sentence due to the risk of a suspended ID. – Now he won’t get rid of it anyway. If all this is not enough to be deemed unfit to care for patients, I don’t know what would be, she tells Mitt i.
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Doctors convicted of sex crimes – get their license back
