Married doctor, 51, who told student, 20, she had a 'nice body' during intimate examination then asked her out for a curry is struck off

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mohammad Tariquezzaman 'smirked' as he watched female patient undress</strong><br /> <ul class="article-summary news mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She visited University College Hospital, south London, with stomach pains</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Father-of-four 'laughed' when the young woman said she felt uncomfortable</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After performing internal examination, medic then asked for her number</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>The devout Muslim also invited the patient out for an Indian</strong><strong> meal </strong></span></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found him guilty of sexual misconduct</strong><strong> </strong></span></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><br /></strong></span></li> </ul> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="mol-img-group floatRHS" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Struck off: Dr Mohammad Tariquezzaman, 51, watched the patient undress, pulled down her underwear and said she had a 'nice body' at University College Hospital in south London" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="0" height="605" id="i-248e42428d0dc705" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/29/1409317586916_Image_galleryImage_Pic_shows_Dr_Mohammad_Tar.JPG" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); 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padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Struck off: Dr Mohammad Tariquezzaman, 51, watched the patient undress, pulled down her underwear and said she had a 'nice body' at University College Hospital in south London</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A married doctor who told a university student she had a 'nice body' during a consultation before asking her out for a curry has been struck off today. </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Father-of-four Dr Mohammad Tariquezzaman - known as Dr Zaman - performed an 'unnecessary' internal examination when the 20-year-old woman arrived at University College Hospital, London, complaining of stomach pains.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 51-year-old 'smirked' as he watched her undress, pulled her knickers down to her thighs and commented on her appearance during the 20-minute appointment.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the woman, known only as Patient A, told him she felt uncomfortable, he laughed and said: ‘This isn’t the first time this has been done to you.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zaman, who has worked in Britain for 18 years, also took her phone number, asked whether she had a boyfriend and invited her out for an Indian meal.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The patient's mother, a nurse, contacted police after her daughter told her about the examination at the hands of Zaman.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The doctor, who also worked at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, south west London, was cleared of sexual assault by penetration after a trial at Blackfriars Crown Court in December 2011.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But he was struck by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel after they found him guilty of sexual misconduct.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The panel told Zaman that the examination was 'unnecessary' and his actions were sexually motivated. </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The devout Muslim had asked the MPTS panel to suspend him for a year.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But chairman Dr Vicki Harris told him: ‘The panel could not be confident that you had no attitudinal problems in light of your smirking, laughter and inappropriate comments to your patient during the internal vaginal examination.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘Your actions were clearly deplorable and your breaches of Good Medical Practice [professional guidelines] were particularly serious.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘They eroded the trust that patients are entitled to have in doctors. Notwithstanding the testimonials and the mitigation that you advanced, in particular that</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">relating to the financial and personal consequences of erasure, the panel has concluded that your misconduct is so serious that it is fundamentally incompatible with continued registration.’</span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737710/Married-doctor-51-told-student-20-nice-body-intimate-examination-asked-curry-struck-off.html#ixzz3Bp3oZXPb" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737710/Married-doctor-51-told-student-20-nice-body-intimate-examination-asked-curry-struck-off.html#ixzz3Bp3oZXPb</a><br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline" style="cursor: pointer; 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min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zaman had denied the allegations, insisting he was not attracted to black girls, but the fitness the panel preferred the evidence of his victim.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The accounting and finance student said she had gone to hospital suffering abdominal pain after falling ill during while working part-time in a clothes shop.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She attended the accident and emergency department and was seen by Zaman, who was working as a locum senior house officer at the time. </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He also suggested she should go to his private practice in Putney for free, even though there was no clinical reason for her to do so, the tribunal found.</span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="clear: both; margin: 0px auto 4px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Sexual misconduct: The victim, referred to as Patient A, arrived at University College Hospital in south London complaining of stomach pains and was subjected to an 'unnecessary' internal examination by Zaman  " class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="1" height="426" id="i-649e3cecee812417" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/29/1409319350330_wps_42_CBBXHD_University_College.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+3</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 169, 171); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 4px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sexual misconduct: The victim, referred to as Patient A, arrived at University College Hospital in south London complaining of stomach pains and was subjected to an 'unnecessary' internal examination by Zaman  </span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zaman told her to get undressed, but failed to offer her a chaperone or provide her with any privacy, it was found.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Giving evidence, Patient A said: ‘He examined around my navel, the left side and the other parts of my abdomen. That was what he examined before the internal examination.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She continued: ‘When he was doing the internal exam my eyes were closed because I thought it was uncomfortable.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘It was kind of embarrassing so my eyes were closed and I opened my eyes whilst it was going on and that’s when I saw he was looking at me.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She told the panel that Zaman smirked and laughed when she told him she felt uncomfortable and, referring to her boyfriend, said: ‘This isn’t the first time this has been done to you.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Patient A added: ‘I did tell him I felt uncomfortable at the time and I was in a lot of pain and up until he said a certain comment and I realised where the consultation was going I honestly did think he was examining me.</span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="clear: both; margin: 0px auto 4px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Delporable: The father-of-four also invited the female patient for a free consultation at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, south west London" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="2" height="405" id="i-82262de58e9af441" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/29/1409321239678_wps_48_Royal_Hospital_for_Neuro_.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+3</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 169, 171); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 4px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Delporable: The father-of-four also invited the female patient for a free consultation at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, south west London</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘From what he was saying and the way he was talking I realised that he was not examining me and by then it was too late for me to do anything. It’s not in my character to make a big scene or scream.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When he had finished the procedure he joked: ‘Everything’s fine, you’re clean.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She said: ‘He said he would contact me and he also mentioned something about an Indian restaurant and trying to find out if I was available the next day or the day afterwards.’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zaman continues to deny the panel’s findings and says he is being ‘crucified for a sin I have not done at all’</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He had been subject to a string of conditions since March 2010, one of which prevented him from conducting intimate examinations without a chaperone, except in life-threatening situations.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zaman now has 28 days to appeal the decision. </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="margin-bottom: 8px; min-height: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Follow @</span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span></div> </div>

Married doctor, 51, who told student, 20, she had a 'nice body' during intimate examination then asked her out for a curry is struck off

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