A DOCTOR facing a series of charges of improper conduct against his female patients told a 16-year-old schoolgirl in his surgery that he wanted to make love to her, a court was told yesterday.
The witness, who is now 20, claimed her GP had made sexual advances towards her.
Dr James Hammond, 52, of Linnhe Place, Erskine, Renfrewshire, denies at Paisley Sheriff Court a total of nine breach of peace charges against female patients.
The first witness said she had visited his surgery on a number of dates as a schoolgirl accompanied by her mother between 1993 and 1995. After that, she claimed, he began to compliment her on her looks and ask if she was dating anyone.
She said that when she was about 16 she asked to be prescribed the contraceptive pill.
Tears rolled down her cheeks as she told the court: ''I told him I was going on holiday and he asked if I had a boyfriend.
''When I said 'no', he told me 'I want to be your first'.''
She said he added: ''I'm being serious. I want to make love to you.'' She was too shocked to say anything. As she went to leave the consulting room, she claimed, he warned her not to tell anyone what had taken place.
The girl's mother, who is 45, claimed she too had felt uncomfortable when Dr Hammond made remarks to her. She told the court he had ''lost interest'' after a while and she noticed he became more interested in her daughter.
She said she had confided in Dr Hammond that she had housing problems and that he had offered to buy a house and rent it out to her. It was such a bizarre suggestion, she laughed it off as a joke.
A third witness, a lone parent who had had depression symptoms, claimed the doctor had given her a slip of paper with his home telephone number.
''He told me I could come up and see him at his house. I didn't think he meant to talk.
''It was my understanding he meant sex or at least a kiss and cuddle.''
She said he had later arrived at her house unannounced and uninvited, and once inside said he wanted to go out with her.
''I am interested. You are a lovely looking girl,'' she claimed he said.
The witness said that during a consultation at his surgery for shoulder pain she was suffering, she again felt uneasy as he massaged her shoulder ''too long''.
After making a complaint to police, she was informed she had been struck off the patient list at the surgery.
A 25-year-old student said she had felt Dr Hammond's conduct was ''weird'' after he visited her home at night in an emergency call out. She had severe stomach cramps and had lost a lot of blood. After an examination of her abdomen, by a doctor she had never seen before, he brushed his hand against her skin, asked if she was single, and told her she had lovely hair. Later, she said, he sent her a personal letter which she felt was ''very unprofessional''.
A 20-year-old student who had gone to the doctor's surgery for a series of injections before travelling to Turkey said she too felt unnerved by his uninvited attentions. She had complained about stomach pains and when he examined her he ''went too far'' and began to touch her around her pantie line.
''I felt very, very uncomfortable. I didn't feel happy at all about it, but pretty scared.
''He asked me if I would like to go out for dinner with him. I didn't think that was appropriate at all. He was quite persistent and told me he had an apartment in Tenerife and I could have had it instead of going to Turkey.''
Dr Hammond denies nine charges alleging he conducted himself in a disorderly manner between October 1990 and April 1997.
It is alleged he placed patients in a state of fear and alarm and that on two occasions he made indecent suggestions, and kissed one woman on the mouth and another on the face.
The trial continues.
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