A former registrar at the Royal Hobart Hospital has been suspended for six weeks after calling for women to be raped. The Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal last week found Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee, 31, guilty of professional misconduct. The Medical Board of Australia has alleged that Dr Lee made “inappropriate comments” in Singaporean chat rooms while working and residing in Hobart in December 2016. During the tribunal hearings, Chairman Robert Webster listed some of the derogatory comments made by Dr Lee. “Some women deserve to be raped, and that supercilious little bitch fits the bill in every way,” one of the comments said. “She needs to be abandoned in India and repeatedly raped in order for her to wake up her idea. “I am a medical practitioner. I also have a foul mouth and call a spade a spade. “I can just as easily condemn your mother for a whore.” In the decision, handed down on April 17, Mr Webster said Dr Lee’s comments were “disrespectful of women”, “racially discriminatory” and had “potential to cause harm to the public”. He also found Dr Lee was identifiable as an Australian medical practitioner, which constituted professional misconduct under national law and common law. Dr Lee told the tribunal he was “relatively young and inexperienced” when he made the comments and said he had “a brash and opinionated bent” to his conduct on social media. The tribunal also found Dr Lee “did not fully appreciate that posting comments on a Singaporean online forum would have consequences on his practise of medicine in Australia”.
