He made the vulgar remarks while in conversation with a colleague
A Nottingham doctor made allegedly Islamophobic comments about patients in a voicemail that he forgot to stop recording, a tribunal has heard. Dr Balvinder Mehat, a GP partner at Bakersfield Medical Centre, made the vulgar remarks while in conversation with a colleague in 2021.
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal was told on Monday, September 2 his actions "demonstrated hostility based on race/religion". However it ruled his words were not motivated by racial/religious hostility.On July 8, 2021, Dr Mehat, a GP at the practice for more than 30 years, tried to make a phone call to a patient and left a voicemail. However, he failed to disconnect the call and began discussing "problem patients" with the practice manager.
In a statement read out to the tribunal, Dr Mehat said he was referring to the two people who had complained, and not Muslims in general. "My outburst was about them and their actions, which I had found deeply upsetting," he said. "I am truly embarrassed and ashamed of this. I should not have done so, but I was deeply frustrated and upset at the time."
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