Exclusive: Dominique Lee, who was drugged and assaulted in Sydney in 2013, says it has taken 10 years ‘not to feel shame and hate’ at herself, but after reading of UK experiences it was time to speak out
When Dominique Lee got the results of the toxicology report confirming she had been drugged by an eminent doctor before he indecently assaulted her, she resolved to go to the police, even if it meant her career as a radiation oncologist would be over.
“It was clear I was harmed with intent,” Lee says, speaking publicly for the first time since Prof John Kearsley, the then director of radiation oncology at St George Hospital in Sydney, was convicted of indecent assault. It remains the only time a junior doctor in Australia has won such a case against a senior doctor.
