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Those texts escalated to sex and masturbation in a hospital where he was receiving treatment for cancer, including one night where she slept in the patient’s bed.

Sundaralingam, 37, also asked the patient to alter hospital documents to hide the affair, the statement of facts said.

“Almost instantly after diagnosing Patient A with a life-altering diagnosis, Dr. Sundaralingam began to breach well established boundaries between physicians and patients,” Amy Block, the college’s prosecutor, said at the doctor’s disciplinary hearing.

“This was all with the knowledge that what she was doing was wrong. The evidence makes clear that she asked Patient A to falsify hospital documents in order to conceal her abuse. Only revocation can maintain confidence in the medical profession’s ability to regulate itself.”

Sundaralingam would often stay with the patient for hours while he was at the hospital for chemotherapy, the disciplinary hearing was told. She performed blood transfusions on him and the pair also touched each other sexually, the statement of facts said.

In one visit after she examined the patient, Sundaralingam asked the patient to examine her, according to the statement of facts. He complied.

They had sex in the hospital on two occasions and also engaged in sexual activities when she visited him at his family home for treatment.

The evidence makes clear that she asked Patient A to falsify hospital documents in order to conceal her abuse Amy Block, the college's prosecutor

In September 2016, after having sex at the patient’s home, Sundaralingam told him she was in love with a colleague, the disciplinary panel heard. Their sexual relationship ended, documents say. By November 2015 she refused to see him.