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An Australian medical tribunal, riled by lurid posts that an errant doctor placed on Singapore tech portal HardwareZone's forums, has banned him from six weeks' practice and ordered him to undergo lessons in ethical behaviour and communications, particularly in the use of social media.

The Medical Board of Australia had taken Dr Lee Kwan Chen, 31, who is now based in Victoria state, to the Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal for professional misconduct over numerous inappropriate and offensive statements online.

The tribunal's grounds of decision did not indicate how the medical authorities were alerted to Dr Lee's posts.

Dr Lee, who worked for the Tasmania Health Service for two years from February 2016, had posted two photographs on the HardwareZone forum showing him in medical attire and with his degree certificates.

In a comment he posted in December 2017, Dr Lee referred to an article about a male Egyptian lawyer who was jailed for three years for saying women who wear ripped jeans should be raped in punishment. In the post, Dr Lee said: "I'm surprised they didn't give him a medal instead."

A month later, he posted that if his marriage should fall apart, "it would not end in divorce, it would end in murder".

In his defence, Dr Lee explained comments he had made, including one in 2016 in which he posted: "Some women deserve to be raped, and that supercilious little ***** fits the bill in every way."

He said the comment was made 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 (national) servicemen".

While he accepted they could be perceived as inflammatory, misogynistic or racist, he insisted he has not allowed his views to affect his care of patients, and that anger had clouded his judgment then.

Dr Lee added that he was relatively young and inexperienced, and had an opinionated bent to his conduct on social media at the time.

A joint submission by Dr Lee and the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency said his online views did not colour or influence his medical practice.

It said he has also never been discriminatory or derogatory towards the groups of individuals that his comments are allegedly inflammatory towards.

However, tribunal chairman Robert Webster ordered Dr Lee to be reprimanded and suspended for six weeks starting next month.

The tribunal held, among other things, that the online posts "convey socially unacceptable and extreme sentiments which are disrespectful to women and comment upon violence towards or sexual abuse of women".

It held that Dr Lee's posts fell "substantially below" the standard reasonably expected of a doctor of his training and experience, noting they were posted during after hours.

Mr Webster said: "The totality of (Dr Lee's) conduct amounts to professional misconduct.

"The orders should fulfil the objective of maintaining the professional reputation of medical practitioners and also to act to deter the type of conduct that occurred which is quite unbecoming of the standards and reputation of the profession."

Added Mr Webster: "When all the posts are taken together the conduct is all the more grave."

 

 

U are responsible for whatever you post online. Dunend up in jail for what u post on fb, forum.

 

https://pride.kindness.sg/jail-post-facebook/

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Scion

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Internet is serious business.... :D

 

anyway old Chinese saying 病从口入, 祸从口出 is very true

 

learn to control the mouth first

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Jamesc

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I wonder... what will happen if your MIL saw what you posted!

I think she will think the doctor is an idiot too.

 

:D

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Watwheels

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What is social media really? If you are of a highly respected profession like a doctor you will be judged by the words you put out. But if you are say a delivery man and you were to say the same things as what this doctor did, will you be judged the same way or nobody cares?

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Watwheels

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only if he has a brain.

 

If he doesnt has a brain how did he became a doctor?

 

Many ppl do not treat social media seriously. The comments that he made most likely isnt serious at all. Moreover after this had made the news more ppl would come in and judge him most likely because he's a doctor. Some will take the chance to berate him.

 

To me it's a waste of time focusing on stuff that isnt important at all.

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Angcheek

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Last time my MO boss always jokingly said mouth big brain small ð

 

No pun intended to all physicians here â¤ï¸

I think ur MO referring to his GF ...
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