I did say when I was a medical student... I think we are talking around 1996 or thereabouts. My military side means I spend a longer time than most as a junior, hence still a registrar.

I only heard the aftermath third hand, but he was removed from the chaplaincy team by his own church. That makes me think that locally to there (Portsmouth) such things were not the teaching anyway. The navy had some military padres at that hospital, so I'm surprised it was a retired priest via the diocese or whatever they call their regions.

Even if they were, his bedside manner has no place in a hospital, and quite rightly, patients are, hopefully, protected from such abuse. (OK, I did my annual safegarding training last week, so whilst it is fresh in my maind, I know I could have reported that to the local authority safeguarding team as abuse.)

You get mavericks in all walks of life. Enough doctors behind bars for me to try for a higher moral ground, but with clerics, how are they assessed? Where is the peer review? Where is the competency checking or appraisal? These people have access to children and vulnerable adults, often at very sensitive times.