Toronto’s Doctor license withdraw after having sexual affair with a cancer patient
A Toronto based doctor’s license withdraw after having an intimate relationship with her cancer patient which included sex when he was getting treatment in hospital.
Theepa Sundaralingam, an oncologist, appealed no contest to disgraceful and sexual abuse, unprofessional conduct or dishonorable at a hearing in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario during this week.
This relationship started when Sundaralingam diagnosed man in January 2015 with cancer and the affair began with some flirtatious texts messages.
Sundaralingam wrote in a message on March 3, 2015, at 11:26 p.m. in which it was written that “Have u ever been to a porn and cheese party?” All those texts escalated to the masturbation and sex in the hospital where he was getting treatment for cancer, which included one night where she slept in the patient’s bed.
Sundaralingam, 37, too told the patient to alter all the hospital documents to hide this affair, the statement of facts said.
Sundaralingam often stays with her patient for hours when the patient was at the hospital for chemotherapy. She performed the patient’s blood transfusions. Sundaralingam was asked to pay $6,000 in costs to the college and $16,000 towards the patient’s therapy.
