Patient’s text messages claim should not be accepted, hearing told

Cellphone on which the alleged postings received ‘should be produced’

WhatsApp messages allegedly sent by a top Port Elizabeth medical specialist to a former patient after he allegedly sexually assaulted her were disputed at a Health Professions Council of SA hearing on Thursday.

The messages allegedly sent to the 30-year-old woman in the days following a consultation with the doctor were read out into the record but then disputed by advocate Salie Joubert SC...

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