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Male midwife facing 29 charges of misconduct,

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TheLoneRager · 25/01/2022 21:46

NMC hearing started today, expected to last four days, of a senior male midwife accused of, among other things, having taken pictures of two women having caesarian sections without their permission and also filmed himself performing a sex act in a hospital toilet.
He faces 29 misconduct charges.

Will be watching this case this week.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10439033/Bullying-male-midwife-alleged-taken-pictures-two-women-having-Caesarean-sections.html

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1Week · 25/01/2022 22:09

So how does it work?
Is it a trainee has to start of in a general discipline and then - I dunno - pass the gynea and obs modules and gets funnelled into this speciality?
Or do you aim for it from the start?
Not sure how it works.

WorkingClassWoman · 25/01/2022 22:08

Oh look here’s a different male midwife who was also struck off www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3541622/Male-midwife-told-female-patients-oral-sex.html

makingmiracles · 25/01/2022 22:06

Rightly or wrongly, in my opinion men should not be midwives. Whilst doing my midwifery(didn’t end up completing) degree I worked with a male midwife on postnatal ward, everyone seemed to love him but I found out one night in the early hours he was quite a bully and extremely sharp tongued, I was a first yr student, he’d asked my to do bloods at 4am and given how tired I was (I also had 2young kids myself) I said I wasn’t confident in my ability to do it safely. He got extremely annoyed with me and sent me home.

Women are at their most vulnerable time in their lives whilst giving birth and afterwards and personally I do think it should be a job for women only.

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TheLoneRager · 25/01/2022 22:02

It certainly is Goats.

Personally I would never agree to have a male midwife.

Here is another who was struck off in 2016 for, among other complaints, telling women to give more oral sex to reduce blood pressure.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3541622/Male-midwife-told-female-patients-oral-sex.html

I know that predates the 2018 figure of fifty male midwives, so he wouldn't have been counted in that figure but hey ho, three out of fifty.

What are the odds? Who'd have thought it.

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FrancescaContini · 25/01/2022 22:01

So very sickening.

HollowTalk · 25/01/2022 21:59

God, every new news story brings me down so much. Why are there so many fucking bastards in the world?

Goatsaregreat · 25/01/2022 21:55

Depressing isn't it TheLoneRanger ?

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TheLoneRager · 25/01/2022 21:53

Cross post Goats

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TheLoneRager · 25/01/2022 21:53

As an aside it says he was one of only 50 male midwives in 2018.
There was another one struck off last year for a stash of 400 indecent images of children.

So that's 2/50

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9989159/Male-midwife-39-caught-stash-400-indecent-images-children.html

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