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Eight women who provided care for a disabled Vancouver psychiatrist are alleging that he told them to perform inappropriate sex acts for him.

Seven of the women were hired as personal-care aides by Dr. John Allan James Christensen and one of them was hired as a live-in caregiver.

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Christensen, who has been a quadriplegic for 20 years and claims to suffer from chronic pain, advertised the positions on Craigslist and UBC CareersOnline.

The women, many of whom were interested in a career in the health-care field, were told that the postings for personal care aide did not require any previous experience.

The allegations against the 75-year-old psychiatrist, who has practised psychiatry for decades but whose current employment status is listed as “temporarily inactive” by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C., date from 2011 to earlier this year.

Many of the women claim in their lawsuits filed in B.C. Supreme Court that he asked them to squeeze his testicles or penis in order to relieve pain. One woman said that she was told to heat up a bottle of massage oil before applying it onto Christensen’s testicles.