A surgeon in Queensland, Australia, was fined $10,000 for taking and sharing a photograph of a patient's penis. The penis was remarkable for having a swastika tattooed on it and being attached to a patient injured when a bomb he was constructing went off.
The man was placed in intensive care where he was intubated and placed in a coma for a week, during which he was treated by the doctor who was employed by the hospital. While undergoing treatment, the surgeon "noticed the swastika tattoo and photographed it", a finding by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal states.
In a statement, the professional tribunal reprimanded the doctor (anonymous in reportage along with the patient) for exploiting the patient's vulnerable status: ""The patient was unconscious and particularly vulnerable. The trust reposed by the patient in his treating doctors can be seen to be particularly acute in those circumstances."
Previously:
• NorCal neighbors complain as total jerk cements large swastika in his front yard
• The controversial history of the US military building shaped like a swastika
• Kanye bought airtime to sell swastika tee-shirts
• Petition the moron with a swastika in his El Sobrante front yard to knock it off
• Slack's new logo is a penis swastika
