Portsmouth surgeon who ‘stripped naked in cubicle’ struck off

A surgeon who undressed in a toilet cubicle and implied to a colleague they had had sex there has been struck off the medical register.

Dr Samuel Stefan was working at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth when the young colleague who was chatting with him online arranged to meet him in the hospital toilets.

The man said he had arranged to meet there at a mutually convenient location, had not planned to have sex with him and the panel was told he was “shocked, numb and scared”.

It was said that Dr Stefan did not apologize to the man or to two other people he had sexually harassed. He was not represented at last month’s hearing and did not attend it himself.

Dr. Stefan, a colorectal surgeon, also tried to kiss another colleague and exposed himself to him.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel also found he repeatedly attempted to touch the thigh and penis of a third colleague while they were working on the hospital’s wards.

“His conduct amounted to sexual harassment towards [the men] and represented a serious violation of this expected standard,” the panel concluded.

The first man reported the allegations to police, but the second and third men involved did not report theirs “due to embarrassment”, the committee heard.

He was found responsible for a “very serious” offense.

The panel concluded that Dr Stefan would be immediately removed from the medical register following the hearing.