A foul-mouthed UK surgeon with a penchant for giving patients sexual innuendo-laden instructions has been suspended from the medical register for nine months, the BMJ reports.

Colorectal surgeon Dr Serban Gheorghiu, who asked patients to “assume the George Michael position” instead of directing them to bring their knees to their chin for colonoscopies, didn’t seem to recognise normal workplace boundaries, according to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.