Labrador doctor who asked woman if she likes 'big ones or small ones' suspended

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4286436_20160927122622_jpegb65612e7c736c35504290bf7f973a315 Dr. Adekunle Williams Owolabi is shown in court in St. John's on Monday Sept. 26, 2016. A disciplinary hearing was held Monday for a Labrador medical doctor accused of inappropriate kissing and making sexual comments. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sue Bailey
Published on Sep 26 2016

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Labrador West physician who asked a woman during a Pap test if she "liked big ones or small ones" has lost his medical licence for six months and must be chaperoned when seeing female patients for two years once he goes back to work.

A three-person tribunal established by the provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons found Dr. Adekunle Owolabi guilty Monday of four counts of professional misconduct after a six-day hearing earlier this year.

Four female patients had accused the Nigeria-trained doctor of making sexual comments, and of inappropriate hugging and kissing.

To resume his general practice, Adekunle must take a course on appropriate doctor-patient boundaries. He was also ordered to pay $75,000 in costs related to the investigation and disciplinary process.


In each of the four separate complaints, Owolabi was found to have shown a lack of respect for the dignity and privacy of his patients, constituting professional misconduct.

He has 30 days to appeal the penalties to the trial division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador.

"He's very disappointed," his lawyer Paul Stokes said after Owolabi left without comment Monday. "But he understands the reasoning of the panel."
Stokes said his client has not yet decided on whether to appeal but looks forward "to following up with their penalties and getting back to work as soon as he possibly can."

Owolabi had continued to practise in Labrador West, voluntarily using a chaperone for female patients, as the disciplinary process played out.

Dr. Elizabeth Mate led the tribunal. Reading from its decision, she said comments Owolabi made to one complainant during a 2014 Pap test, asking if she "liked big ones or small ones," were "cavalier" and "unprofessional."

Mate found that Owolabi's steadfast denials of wrongdoing were "self-serving." Moreover, she described as "baseless" his counter-accusations against another patient whom he called "mischievous" and "a pathological liar."
Lawyer Ruth Trask, representing the college, had argued Monday for an eight-month suspension with a formal reprimand from the tribunal.

"This is taken very seriously," she said of the accusations, suggesting Owolabi had "a pattern of behaviour."

Stokes responded in Owolabi's defence that eight months would be "excessive." He proposed a suspension of three to six months, and stressed that his client's technical skills as a doctor were not in question.

Stokes asked the tribunal to put inappropriate comments, hugging and kissing in the context of far more serious possible sexual offences.
"This is a good physician," he told the panel at Monday's sanctioning hearing.

Owolabi turned his face away from media cameras as he arrived, and showed little emotion as the findings were read. At one point, he sat with his forehead in his hand before Stokes spoke a few words to him.
Owolabi's suspension won't be good news for patients who rely on him. A shortage of physicians in Labrador West has already been blamed for many residents waiting for emergency room care at the Labrador West Health Centre.

Source: http://m.metronews.ca/#/article/news/canada/2016/09/26/medical-doctor-accused-of-inappropriate-kissing-to-face-disciplinary-hearing.html

Very irresponsible.There are 'jokes' you don't make in a hospital.

Being a Nigerian just further damages Nigeria's reputation.Nigerian doctors are hard working though.
Proud that Hillary Clinton's personal physician is a Nigerian.

He should come back to Nigeria and taken PMB 101 course called " CHANGE BEGINS WITH ME", and he must recite the change Mantra 21 times a day

Can somebody please highlight the name for me to see properly....

thorpido:
Very irresponsible.That are 'jokes' you don't make in a hospital.

Being a Nigerian just further damages Nigeria's reputation.Nigerian doctors are hard working though.
Proud that Hillary Clinton's personal physician is a Nigerian.

I heard he's a very playful doctor and didnt mean any harm. Anyway, he carried the playfulness abroad where they dont play, see gobe

How can a professional medical doctors be making advances and asking he's patients if she like big or small ones? that's unprofessional and the height of irresponsibility... maybe he thought he's in Nigeria where you get away with such reckless statements..that will serve as deterrent to most of these doctors that lacks morals...Oh I forgot he's name was mentioned, sorry Dr Adekunle Owolabi !

5minsmadness:


I heard he's a very playful doctor and didnt mean any harm. Anyway, he carried the playfulness abroad where they dont play, see gobe

Yes,he took the playfulness too far especially if he attended medical school in Nigeria.In Nigeria,medical doctors(lecturers) make a lot of jokes while teaching medical students and they don't see anything wrong with it but abroad,those people don't play with stuff like that.

Very unprofessional of him ....serves him right

Nawa oo why the question na, at his age he's suppose to knw all girls like big ones na

ucsparks:
Nawa oo why the question na, at his age he's suppose to knw all girls like big ones na

No mind am e think say na like dr.house wey fit talk anytin and go scot free e no knw say that one na film

Yoruba Nigerian men and perversion are like bread and butter . . .

That was unprofessional of him.

He maybe framed though, I don't trust any of those whites who feel intimidated by foreigners taking their jobs

Hmmmmm

Watch how peeps will turn this into a tribal thread

Very Unprofessional of you Sir

i like em big n fat

Lol

See as the guy head dey like new yam
The cone heads and stupidity are 5&6

Please come back home

All you need is to shout "PDP mismanage our economy for 16yrs" do that 20times and you are a Director in Economic ministry

Mr bamidele bamgboye won't like this

high rate of testosterone dey d doctor body no..

See his tiny head!

I am guessing he is has a small man down there hence his question

So unprofessional.

Adekunle Owolabi

That moment when village people are at work