A Melbourne doctor has been found guilty of performing an indecent act on a suicidal transsexual patient under his care.
Dr Sulieman Hamid, 53, allegedly touched the cognitively-impaired patient on her breasts and lips while he treated her for a slashed wrist in a cubicle at the Sunshine Hospital emergency department in June 2007.
The jury found that the touching did not constitute the more serious charge of indecent assault.
The court heard the patient propositioned the doctor while he was treating her.
The jury found Hamid not guilty of raping the woman at her home the following day.
It had been alleged the doctor went to the patient's house and raped her twice.
Hamid's lawyer Nick Papas said after the verdict his client would almost certainly never practise again.
"It is clear he has been suspended in terms of medical practice," Mr Papas said.
"I expect that even had he been acquitted totally he would be stopped from practising.
"The man is going to lose his career, he knows that."
Giving evidence on the opening day of the trial earlier this month, the patient agreed she had propositioned the doctor, but said she was not thinking straight when she did.
The patient said at the time she was trying to get out of the hospital so she could "run in front of a taxi".
"He (the doctor) said he couldn't (have sex) because he was working," the patient said.
"He started touching my neck, my breasts, my lips, with his fingers."
Opening his case, Hamid's lawyer Nick Papas agreed his client went to the patient's house but said the sex was consensual.
He denied Hamid, of Glenroy, indecently assaulted the patient in the hospital cubicle.
Hamid, who faces a maximum of five years prison, was released on bail to appear in court for a pre-sentence hearing on Friday.
