A Finnish doctor who said he sucked a patient's nipple in line with an old midwives' diagnostic trick has been fined for subjecting the 20-year-old woman to a "sexual act", a court said Wednesday.
Two lower courts earlier ruled that the doctor, who insisted he had obtained the patient's permission, had not committed a crime. But overturning those rulings, the Finnish Supreme Court said in a statement that the hospital doctor had been sentenced to "a fine and compensation for sexually taking advantage of a patient and violation of his professional duty."
The doctor said that he merely used the technique to diagnose a medical problem in accordance with the long-established midwives' practice during a 2007 appointment for an ultrasound breast exam. The court added that it considered "it proven that it was indeed a sexual act."
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