Box Hill doctor Christopher Lee’s suspension extended ‘indefinitely’ after vile public comments

A Box Hill Hospital doctor suspended for his vile online rants including the claim “some women deserve to be raped” has not been allowed to return to work.

Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee’s suspension has been extended.

A Box Hill doctor who was dealt a six-week suspension for his online rants against women, in which he said “some women deserve to be raped” has been suspended indefinitely.

The Medical Board of Australia has extended the suspension of Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee’s registration “in the public interest to maintain confidence in the medical profession”.

This action comes after a huge public uproar followed the news of the self-confessed mongrel doctor’s online activity, revealed when he went before Health Practitioners Tribunal in Tasmania in April.

The six-week suspension the tribunal handed Dr Lee was due to end on June 11, but on June 6 the Medical Board of Australia moved to suspend his registration indefinitely.

Dr Lee described himself as a medical practitioner “with a foul mouth.”

The board said it had “taken this action in the public interest to maintain confidence in the medical profession” and would not be commenting further on the issue.

A statement on the Medical Board of Australia website said the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and national boards did not have the legal power to deregister a practitioner. Only an independent tribunal can cancel a practitioner’s registration.

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Dr Lee has been employed with Eastern Health as a doctor at Box Hill Hospital since January.

Eastern Health chief medical officer Dr Alison Dwyer said the hospital was complying with the Medical Board of Australia’s decision, disallowing Dr Lee to return to work at the hospital.

“Eastern Health does not tolerate any form of violence and discrimination and any such action is not welcome in our workplace or in our community,” she said.

Dr Lee graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2012.

After the health service was flooded with complaints in April and May for employing the 31-year-old doctor, Dr Dwyer told Whitehorse Leader Eastern Health had initiated a “a review into the implications of the tribunal findings for Dr Lee and Eastern Health”.

But Dr Dwyer declined to comment on the investigation or the future of Dr Lee’s career at Box Hill Hospital when asked on June 11.

Dr Lee made derogatory comments online on multiple occasions between 2016 and 2018 while he was working at Tasmanian hospitals.

At his hearing in April, the Melbourne University graduate admitted to posting comments such as “she needs to be abandoned in India and repeatedly raped” and “If my marriage fell apart, it would not end in divorce. It would end in murder” on internet forums.

He told the tribunal his comments had never coloured his care of patients.

Yet in an online forum back in 2016 Dr Lee was reported as having freely shared that he was a medical practitioner with “a foul mouth”.

“My online personality is exactly the same as my offline one,” he wrote.