Patient called Georgetown doctor who showed naked selfies a `slithery dragon,´ panel told
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

A Georgetown family doctor found to have sexually abused his patients by showing them naked photos of himself was described by one patient as a “slithery dragon� she sees in her nightmares, a penalty hearing at Ontario’s medical regulator heard Monday. Dr. Nigel Mark Phipps was found guilty last year by a five-member discipline panel at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario of sexually abusing 11 female patients by showing them the naked selfies. Phipps had admitted to the panel that he showed the patients and staff members an array of photos on his cell phone, but denied that it constituted sexual abuse. The photos included: one where Phipps is naked with his penis visible, one of Phipps’ naked buttocks, one where he’s naked from the groin up but where the genitals are not visible and a fourth showing him naked with a towel over his arm. The panel also found that Phipps had an erection during two of the patient encounters. Monday was the beginning of a three-day penalty hearing to decide what to do with Phipps’ licence, with the maximum penalty being revocation. The discipline panel heard from a number of patients through victim impact statements read by college prosecutor Elisabeth Widner. “To this day I have nightmares of Dr. Phipps sitting at the table in the courtroom (discipline hearing room), yet in my dream he is a slithery dragon hunched over the table staring at me,� said one patient, whose name is covered by a standard publication ban. “Every night when I close my eyes this is what I see. A man who I once admired as an amazing doctor has left me with this impression that you cannot trust anyone because they will use it for their benefit.�Several of the impact statements touched on a loss of trust in the medical profession due to Phipps’ actions, and particularly in male physicians. “I have been left with distrust for medical male professionals which has totally affecte ...