A DOCTOR has resigned from one of Hong Kong's leading medical practices and fled the territory after being reprimanded for indecently touching the breasts of a Cathay Pacific stewardess.
Dr Lawrence Yeung Chi-kin, a general practitioner with Anderson and Partners for more than a decade, has left the group and abandoned his appeal against a Hong Kong Medical Council verdict of ''improper, immoral or indecent behaviour toward a patient''.
Dr Yeung left Hong Kong as a second former patient prepared to lodge a formal complaint and others besieged his employers with accusations.
The young Hong Kong woman said she had recognised Dr Yeung's photograph accompanying an exclusive Sunday Morning Post story on January 16 and was prompted to file a complaint with the council.
She said Dr Yeung had improperly touched her as she lay on an examination table after complaining of a minor illness. The woman had been sent to Anderson and Partners for a pre-employment medical examination after she applied to join a major Hong Kong development company.
The Medical Council's preliminary investigations committee has yet to evaluate her complaint.
