How male physio preyed upon patient by reaching beneath her underwear before she texted her husband in panic – as he’s banned from his job and can NEVER treat women again
- Dr Oscar Yildirim treated a female patient twice for back pain in Sydney in 2018
- After the second session, she reported him for reaching under her underwear
- He was found guilty and has now been banned from practicing for six months
- After his six-month ban expires, he will be banned from treating any women
A physiotherapist has been banned from treating women for life after a tribunal heard he lifted the underwear of a female patient.
Dr Oscar Yildirim treated the woman twice for back pain in 2018 at Bodyfocus Physiotherapy and Sports Injury in Sydney’s inner west.
Three days after the second appointment, she lodged a complaint saying he reached under her underwear twice and lifted it.
The patient said she was lying on her stomach on a massage table when Mr Yildirim pulled her underwear and exposed her body.
He was found guilty in 2021 and has now been banned from practicing for six months. When that ban expires, he cannot treat women or work solo.
The patient used the video above to show the position she was laying in when Dr Oscar Yildirim lifted her underwear
Mr Yildirim, who worked as a physio from 1997 to 2020, has also been instructed to inform employers of these conditions in writing within five days of starting a job.
The Physiotherapy Council of NSW must then be given a written and signed statement from the employer saying they are aware of the conditions.
Last September, the patient told the Health Care Complaints Commission about her experience.
Asked how long she was exposed for, she said: ‘It was long enough that I felt uncomfortable enough to actually say something.
‘I just couldn’t just wait for him to finish.’
After the second treatment, she texted her husband and ‘broke down immediately’.
She said she felt ‘really uncomfortable today’ and ‘unsafe’.
Her husband offered to confront the physiotherapist but she said she ‘wanted to go home’ and broke down in tears.
Mr Yildirim denied the claims and insisted he treated the woman in ‘an entirely appropriate manner’.
In his defence to the Council ahead of Thursday’s decision, Mr Yildirim insisted the punishment was not justified.
He admitted the accused conduct is ‘very serious’, however he argued it was not ‘the most serious type’.
Dr Oscar Yildirim treated the woman twice for back pain in 2018 at Bodyfocus Physiotherapy and Sports Injury in the Rhodes Waterside shopping centre
Mr Yildirim also said that the Tribunal found the allegation that he had moved the patient’s underwear so he could view her genitals was unproven.
He also argued that his long career and otherwise unblemished career should be taken into consideration, as well as his reputation of ‘good character’.
One of his character references, from a senior lawyer who has known Mr Yildirim for 30 years, stated that she has never observed the physio be disrespectful towards any woman or exhibit any concerning behaviour.
Despite his arguments, the physio’s registration was suspended for six months and the conditions were placed on him after that period.
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