The one thing she still remembers is the smell.

A 42-year-old woman testified at the sex assault trial of anesthesiologist Dr. George Doodnaught on Thursday she smelled his body when he sexually abused her on a North York General Hospital operating table three years ago.

“I’m never going to forget the smell,” D.D. told Ontario Superior Court.

“I remember it turning my stomach.”

D.D. is the woman whose complaint — the fifth in four years the hospital had received about its veteran anesthesiologist — led to charges against him three years ago.

Doodnaught, 64, has pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of sexual assault involving 20 women under surgery at North York General and one at a Sheppard Ave. E. cosmetic surgery clinic.

The father of five is still licensed to practise, with male patients only, but has not been active for some time.

D.D. came to the hospital for a hysterectomy on Feb. 11, 2010, in a state of high anxiety about the operation, she told prosecutor David Wright.

As she lay on the operating table, there was a blue screen above her, dividing the top of her body from the lower part and over which she could just see the tops of surgeons’ heads.

Doodnaught was alone with her on her side of the screen, she said.

During the operation, she was shocked to suddenly feel her breasts being fondled. “He was moving . . . tweaking my nipples. It was a caressing,” she said.

It went on for two to three minutes, she said. “I recall thinking to myself, ‘I don’t believe that this is happening to me.’ ”

Then she felt herself almost being smothered, she said. “I opened my eyes and Doodnaught’s face was over top of me. He was kissing me.”

She recalled saying to him, “ ‘What about the other people?’ and he lifted his head a little bit and said, ‘Don’t worry. I know how to be discreet.’ ”

Later she felt him inserting his erect penis in her mouth, moving hips slowly and rhythmically for two to three minutes.

In the recovery room he told her, “As soon as you were out, the first thing you reached for is my dick,” D.D. recalled.

Defence lawyer Brian Greenspan asked her if she had gone to sleep during the operation.

“I was not asleep,” she replied.

But Greenspan pointed out she told police she had fallen asleep. “If I said it, sir, then it did happen,” she replied.

Greenspan asked her where her oxygen mask was when she says Doodnaught was kissing her. “It wasn’t on my face,” she said.

Greenspan questioned how, as she recalled, Doodnaught had his arm draped on the sterile sheet during the time he had his penis in her mouth, since “it is essentially a paper product,” unable to support much weight.

She said she was aware of that.

Greenspan asked if she recalled that during the surgery she was moving around the operating table and the surgeons asked Doodnaught to give her another dose of a drug to calm her. “No, I was not aware,” D.D. replied.

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He asked if she recalled her mouth was dry and water was dripped into it.

“I don’t recall,” she replied.

In earlier testimony, a retired 61-year-old teacher, R.M., said she was French kissed by a “very experienced” practitioner of the art during a knee replacement operation at the hospital five years ago.

“I don’t remember going under,” the woman testified.

“The next thing I remember was the sensation of being French kissed,” she said.

“I remember feeling a tongue being inserted in my mouth, and I remember I could not open my eyes.”

She said she recalled that before the operation Doodnaught was very kind and reassuring, allaying her fears. She told the anesthesiologist she had a fear of needles and when he administered the epidural and other drugs she didn’t feel a thing.

Before the operation, she recalled that Doodnaught, as he prepared her, had his face just a few centimetres from hers.

“The hands were on my shoulder and hands on my head,” she told Wright.

Under cross-examination by Greenspan, she agreed the kiss seemed to be coming from below, which he suggested would be impossible for the anesthesiologist, given that he could only be situated behind her or to the side.

“All I know is I was French kissed,” she said.

She agreed that she did not report the incident to police until 2010, when media broadcast Doodnaught had been charged.

She agreed that what she told police in 2010 was true: that she at that point felt it really happened given the fact other people were coming forward with what she assumed were much more serious allegations.

The trial continues Friday.