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Dr
Chris Uzoh, a 40-year-old Nigerian medical doctor was accused of pestering his
female patient with love advances and a result, he has been banned from
practice in the UK for one year.
It was reported by MailOnline, that
Dr Chris Uzoh, had continuously expressed his interest by flooding a scared
patient with chat-up messages and trying to entice her with flowers.
Dr Uzoh, who never stopped sending romantic
messages claimed that, he got her number from her medical records.
Dr Uzoh spent six weeks stalking the
woman to get a date and having told her that he had ‘huge earning potential’.
He also professed to be ‘the best in
his medical school’ as well as having written ‘several well cited scientific
publications’.
One of the messages he sent was ‘I am
single and looking for a serious relationship and not intending to mess about.’
He also left the patient a voice mail
saying he wanted to ‘hear her voice before he went to work’.
Dr Uzoh later sent her another text
saying: ‘I’ve been feeling like a schoolboy meeting a girl he fancied for the
first time. I haven’t felt this way in a while.’
Later the woman received a card and
flowers at her home along with a further message from Uzoh adding: ‘I wonder
how else I would have met you if not this way.
‘My heart is pure, I care, I hope it
would be possible to make you mine some day.’
The unnamed patient, who lived alone
urged, Uzoh to stop pestering her but he pressed on with his chat-up lines
saying: ‘I was trying to be romantic – I did not mean to be creepy. I was
excited about you.’
He continued ‘How is it possible that
a good-looking guy who is a doctor, who has a job with huge earning potential,
who was the best graduating doctor in his medical school, who started out as a
urological surgeon with several well-cited scientific publications, who thinks
you beautiful and special, who wants you – and you wouldn’t give him a chance?
I’ve been in a Toronto and I couldn’t stop thinking about you,’ he said in
another message.
The patient finally complained to
Uzoh’s colleagues at the Murdishaw Health Centre in Runcorn and he was reported
to the General Medical Council.
At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal
Service in Manchester, Uzoh was suspended from practise in Britain for 12
months after he was found guilty of misconduct.
The incidents began between March and
May last year when the woman was booked in for an appointment with Uzoh after
complaining of abdominal pain.
She said ‘I was really shocked to get
that initial message from him because I trusted him as a doctor.
‘If I got that message now there is
no way I would respond. I was in a difficult position particularly at that
point so seeing him taking an interest was a nice thing.
‘The next morning I woke up and there
was a further text message and voicemail message.
‘I remember I was doing my make-up
and getting ready for work and I saw that he was calling but I didn’t want to
pick up. He left a message saying: ‘Hi, I just wanted to hear your voice before
I start my day’.
‘Everyday I looked at my phone there was
something from him whether it be a text message, missed call or a voicemail
message.
‘As soon as I knew the flowers had
been sent I knew that they would be from Dr Uzoh – there weren’t many people
who knew my address at the time.
“You’re being too full on – I’ve only
met you once and I was your patient!’” she said.
Source: MailOnline
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