Doctor deregistered in Melbourne over chatroom comments made about women including S'poreans

The board found that he showed disregard for standards of professional behaviour. PHOTO: PEXELS
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SINGAPORE - A doctor registered in Australia who littered chatrooms with "gruesome images and abhorrent allegations" was deregistered by a medical board in Melbourne for professional misconduct and disqualified for 54 months.

Dr Christopher Lee had posted in 2016 and again between 2018 and 2019 a litany of extreme misogynistic commentary endorsing violence against women as well as xenophobic, bigoted or discriminatory commentary aimed at other groups including Muslims, Palestinians and Singaporean women.

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