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/MC/ Hamilton, Ontario [Canada] (Signal High) for BadMedicine.Online —– A disciplinary panel has revoked the license of Hamilton family physician Dr. Koma Diryawish Isreal after they found he sexually assaulted two patients, repeatedly disregarded an order not to be alone with patients without a monitor present, and “several related forms of professional misconduct” between 2017 and 2021.
Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal said on several occasions, Dr. Israel made inappropriate comments of a sexual nature. Including but not limited to: commenting about how the patient “needs a man” and questioning whether the woman was “attaining sexual satisfaction by masturbating.” Beyond crude remarks, Dr. Israel also grabbed, kissed, and rubbed the genitals of Patient A, who was also an employee. The tribunal noted he attempted to pull her pants down on more than one occasion, and during one incident, he pulled his own pants down and told her he wanted to show her “how big it is.”
Patient A quit her job and terminated the physician-patient relationship in January 2020. He was arrested and charged with sexual assault. Later on October 18, 2022, he pleaded guilty to the lesser included offense of common assault. He received a suspended sentence of two years of probation.
“Dr. Israel’s conduct involved persistence and repetition over a lengthy period in his pursuit of Patient A for apparent sexual gratification… Even after Patient A had had enough and terminated both relationships [employee and patient], and even after he was arrested and was answering to the criminal justice system, he still abused Patient B.” wrote the panel.
According to the panel, Patient B visited the doctor and told him she had been experiencing chest pain, pointing out the area of concern. Dr. Israel asked the patient to stand and lift her shirt. “Without explanation or consent, Dr. Israel removed Patient B’s bra, exposing her breasts. He engaged in touching of a sexual nature to Patient B by squeezing Patient B’s breast with his hand. He did not examine the area of her body that she had pointed out to him,” the panel wrote.
Patient B later saw Dr. Israel smoking outside in the parking lot as she was leaving. Dr. Israel shouted sexually inappropriate remarks at Patient B. The patient immediately reported the incident. According to the panel, while the complaints were being investigated, Israel wasn’t permitted to see patients without a monitor present. A directive he ignored 110 times between August 2022 and April 2024.
The panel noted that the only “mitigating” factor in the case is that Dr. Israel did not contest the allegations outlined, but did not comment on how he handled a room full of women without assaulting any of them.
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