MURPHY, Chief Judge.
We here focus upon the crime of common law battery and whether on the record in this case, the defendant, a surgical oncologist, was properly found to have committed that offense when, in the course of a medical examination upon a patient complaining of painful breasts, he touched another sensitive part of the patient's body without her express permission.
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