“Steve” (not his real name) made an appointment to see Dr. Kelvin Thuc Minh Vo in Sydney, Australia after developing an ache in his back. What happened next, however, left him “scarred for life.”
According to the 18-year-old patient, Dr. Vo asked him a slew of inappropriate questions that were totally irrelevant to his current medical condition. The questions included whether the young man enjoyed watching pornography, if he liked “rough sex,” if he was sexually attracted to Asian men, and if he was a “giver” or “taker.”
In a follow-up visit, Steve claims Dr. Vo grabbed the young man’s crotch then propositioned him for sex. The incident, he says, left him feeling “dirty and ashamed” and led him to file an official report with the Health Care Complaint Commission.
A second alleged victim has also filed a report.
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27-year-old “George” (also not his real name) claims Dr. Vo tried to perform oral sex on him during a visit in 2011. When the patient told the doctor to stop, Vo allegedly begged, “I’m prepared to give anything to you if you don’t tell anyone.”
This week, a tribunal determined that Vo had “exploited a relationship of trust with his young and vulnerable patient” and called for his medical license to be suspended for at least two years to maintain public confidence in doctors.
“We have found the practitioner to be untruthful, and can place no weight on his expressed remorse for his actions, other than his remorse for the consequences of those actions on him and his wife,” the tribunal said.
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enlightenone
Eighteen years old and stupid! Two year suspension, and back to his perverted behavior. Practice shutdown and license needed to be REVOKED!! He is a mence to society
Cagnazzo82
I think you meant have his license ‘suspended’ instead of ‘suspected’. Ha, freudian slip of some sorts maybe 😉
That said, I had an experience a while back when I was suffering from appendicitis and went to the emergency room. Long story short, apparently there was a doctor there who wanted to perform some cavity exam or other (wtf?). It only dawned on me afterwards how inappropriate that request might’ve been… given that my behind had absolutely nothing to do with my condition.
Suffice to say I gave a BS excuse or some other that I ate a lot or something and ‘you don’t want to go up there’ (I was young so that was the first thing that came to mind :)…
Most doctors wouldn’t be nearly as unscrupulous as this dude in the story though. He must’ve gotten away with it in the past to be so upfront about it.
NoCagada
@Cagnazzo82: A rectal exam would NOT necessarily be out of the question for a suspected case of appendicitis.
petensfo
“In a follow-up visit,”
How’s that again? After the inappropriate line of questions, he returned to the same doctor?
I may have been born yesterday… but I’ve been up all night, and something strikes me as funny in this recounting.
Merv
The real question would be “Is Dr. Vo hot?”. If so, I would be riding that latex glove like a pony!
omacdonald
@petensfo: yeah i read the same thing. “steve” goes to the doc and gets a bunch of inappropriate questions. but he goes back to the same doctor for a follow up? hmmm. not so smart. but this doctor if true is very inappropriate and should get his license revoked.
Milk
Aren’t all this videos available from pornhub?
Cam
“”According to the 18-year-old patient, Dr. Vo asked him a slew of inappropriate questions that were totally irrelevant to his current medical condition. The questions included whether the young man enjoyed watching pornography, if he liked “rough sex,” if he was sexually attracted to Asian men, and if he was a “giver” or “taker.”
In a follow-up visit……
Huh?
Not trying to blame the victim, the Dr. was out there, but I’m not sure I understand why the hell he scheduled a follow up!
vive
“Scarred for life”? Come on!
Wooly
The bad man touched my penis.
james_in_cambridge
@Cam: ’cause he’s 18 and stupid. Plus, many people, especially the very young and the very old, trust authority figures as they’ve been taught to do, and even if that kind of question sounds inappropriate to them, even if it sets off an instinctual alarm in their head that something is wrong, they dismiss it and tell themselves that it can’t be, they’re imagining things. Which, by the way, is what predators like Doctor Feelgood here count on.
vive
@james_in_cambridge, yes, if you’re 12. Not at 18 though, unless the person has some cognitive disability (which I suppose is possible).
Raquel Santiago
http://www.hccc.nsw.gov.au/Publications/Media-releases/2014/Dr-Kelvin-Thuc-Minh-Vo—registration-cancelled
Raquel Santiago
http://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/action/PJUDG?jgmtid=175205