GP had sex with patient in his surgery then prescribed her morning after pill
A married GP who avoided being struck off for having sex with a patient in his consultation room has been suspended for a second time.
Dr Peter Rubin, a senior GP and sole partner at Clifton Hampden Surgery has been placed on an interim suspension since October 12. Details have not been publicly released about why the GP has been suspended from his post at the surgery near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, but an investigation is currently ongoing.
He was first suspended in 2014 while he was working at the Woodlands Medical Centre in Didcot, which he joined in 1998, eight years after qualifying. It emerged that the doctor had had sex with a patient in his GP consultation room on Christmas Eve 2007. He then prescribed her a morning after pill, telling her: "You need to take this one."
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service at the time heard that the married man began bombarding the woman with texts, buying her gifts such as a Prada mobile for her birthday and even gifting her children a Wii games console. The personal texts continued until the woman complained that Dr Rubin forcibly tried to remove her trousers during a consultation in July 2012, the tribunal heard. The hearing was also told that while prescribing another woman a contraceptive pill, he asked her to kiss him and allowed her to kiss him on the cheek.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester said his 'dishonest and sexually motivated conduct' was found to have brought the profession into disrepute. The fitness to practice panel, chaired by Dr Peter Jefferys, stopped short of striking him off the medical register, finding there was 'not a significant risk' of him repeating his misconduct.
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He was instead suspended for 12 months and had to attend a review hearing to return to work. In a review panel in April 2015, Dr Rubin's fitness to practise was ruled as 'impaired'. The panel was 'not satisfied' that the GP had 'gained full insight' but did not feel it was appropriate to extend the suspension. He was allowed to return to work with the conditions that included him being 'closely supervised' and not undertaking any out-of-hours work.
A review panel the following year concluded Dr Rubin was 'not impaired' and the conditions were revoked, nothing the 'positive reports' from those he worked with stated: "In relation to the likelihood of you re-offending in the future, the tribunal has noted the work you have undertaken to ensure that you understand what went wrong and ensure that it will not happen again." The Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service show no upcoming hearings for Dr Rubin as of yet.
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