A female doctor has been stripped of her medical license for carrying on an affair with a cancer patient and having sex with him in his hospital bed.
Dr. Theepa Sundaralingam, 37, began flirting with the man just one day after diagnosing him with cancer. She gave him her personal phone number and Instagram handle. They then followed each other and she began sending him flirty messages.
From sexting the man, the oncologist, from Toronto, Canada, took the relationship to the next level by staying with him during treatment for his illness and having sex in his hospital bed.
She, however, told him to keep the relationship secret as she was concerned the college would become aware of their sexual and inappropriate relationship.
But the patient, who will not be named, was devastated when Sundaralingam ended the affair and explained to him that she was in love with a colleague.
The man, who cannot be named, said: