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Men have no monopoly on being predatory sexual abusers with no conscience.

Within days of telling her patient the “life-altering” news that he had cancer, Dr. Theepa Sundaralingam was flirting, sexting and eventually having sex with him, in his home, her clinic and even his hospital bed.

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And then at his most vulnerable, the oncologist told him she was in love with someone else. Sundaralingam dumped him and refused to see him.

“I was physically emaciated and emotionally exposed and the loss of a critical relationship defeated me,” he explained in his victim impact statement to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO) Wednesday. “What compounded this toll was her refusal to continue providing medical care at the same time.”

Now this slip of a woman with a tissue crushed in her hand pleads no contest before the disciplinary panel.

“Your actions are abhorrent and reprehensible,” Sundaralingam is told. “You crossed boundaries and ultimately sexually abused an extremely vulnerable patient suffering from a life-threatening illness.”