A senior doctor has been suspended after he said a male colleague 'looked bent' because of his rainbow LGBTQ lanyard.
Dr Satnam Lidder also made fun of the junior doctor's purple scrubs, a disciplinary hearing was told.
When the colleague complained, Dr Lidder falsely tried to smear him by saying he cheated on exams.
He has now been suspended for six months after being found guilty of serious misconduct by the panel which found the word 'bent' was 'homophobic and offensive'.
The hearing of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service heard Dr Lidder was working as a consultant in acute medicine at King's College Hospital in London at the time of the incident in January 2021.
