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TIL A nurse treated female patient's genitals like a ventriloquist's dummy in front of colleagues. He was examining in front of three colleagues when he “pulled her labia apart and said ‘Hello my name is [Patient A]’, treating her labia like a puppet”, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard.

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