Although some — me, for instance — might contend that sexual intimacy between a doctor and a patient is not automatically sexual abuse based on power dynamics. Last year, a college discipline hearing against these same two doctors ended abruptly even before it began, when the woman refused to testify. On the witness stand last, this woman — Patient A, her identity protected by a publication ban — was clearly disgruntled about being arm-wrestled into testifying. That certificate expired in 2011, the year Chauhan and Kayilasanathan were charged in the hotel room encounter. But last summer, the Health Profession and Review Board sided with Chauhan, ordering the college to issue the certificate.

Source: thestar March 23, 2018 21:24 UTC