‘Masturbation in the surgery was a blood pressure test’

A professor of therapeutics suggested a patient should masturbate in his surgery because it was a ‘good test of blood pressure,’ a court heard. Dr Ariel Lant, 81, allegedly molested four men and six teenagers while treating them at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Fulham Road over a 17 year period. Lant told his patients to strip down to their underwear while he ran his fingers over their groin and genitals, a court heard. One of his patients told Southwark…