Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee found guilty of misconduct for remarks made while working at the Royal Hobart Hospital

A medical practitioner has been suspended after making a series of “inflammatory, misogynistic and racist” online posts while working at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee made the remarks while working as an emergency medicine registrar at the RHH. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

A MEDICAL practitioner has been suspended after making a series of “inflammatory, misogynistic and racist” online posts while working at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

Dr Christopher Kwan Chen Lee, 31, was taken to the Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal by the Medical Board of Australia and was found guilty of professional misconduct at a hearing in Hobart.

In his decision published last week, tribunal chairman Robert Webster said Dr Lee made inappropriate statements on internet forums and chat sites in December 2016 while he was working as an emergency medicine registrar at the RHH.

He was employed at the hospital from February 2016 to February 2018 and also worked some of that time at the Launceston General Hospital.

He is now based in Box Hill, Victoria.

On Singaporean online forum Hardware Zone, Dr Lee posted a series of remarks in the context of a situation in Singapore/Malaysia where a local female college student had made disparaging remarks about servicemen.

His posts included:

— “This kind will never learn. She needs to be abandoned in India and repeatedly raped in order for her to wake up her idea.”

— “Some women deserve to be raped, and that supercilious little bitch fits the bill in every way.”

— “I will not conform to your ridiculous moral standards and your expectations of what a doctor should or should not say.”

— “I am a medical practitioner. I also have a foul mouth and call a spade a spade.”

— “I can just as easily condemn your mother for a whore (if the situation warranted it) as I can save your life or even hers.”

Dr Christopher Lee. Picture: FACEBOOK

Chairman Webster said a letter of support from one of Dr Lee’s superiors in Victoria described him as “warm, engaging and affable and has excellent communication skills”.

He said Dr Lee had understood his posts could be seen as “inflammatory, misogynistic or racist in tone.”

“The online posts convey socially unacceptable and extreme sentiments which are disrespectful of women and comment upon violence towards or sexual abuse of women,” Mr Webster said.

“All of the posts had the potential to incite radical views, antagonise the reader and they had the potential to cause harm to the public.

“[Dr Lee] says they were not made in the context of patient care and he has not allowed his views to ever colour his care of patients.”

Dr Lee was suspended for six weeks and must complete a program on ethical behaviour and communications, particularly in the use of social media.

It was not the first time a complaint had been made about Dr Lee’s behaviour while at the RHH.

The tribunal also heard he had previously received a caution after to accessing a patient’s health records 21 times without consent or clinical need.