Finnish doctor investigated after relationship with former patient began on Tinder

A Finnish doctor is under police investigation after initiating a sexual relationship with a former patient he met on the dating app Tinder, according to an investigation by Yle’s MOT program.

The patient, identified only as Linda to protect her privacy, was 18 when the doctor—nearly a decade older—treated her following a suicide attempt. Months later, they matched on Tinder, leading to a series of encounters that included the doctor smuggling her into a hospital during his night shift.

Linda, whose name has been changed, described the first meeting as coercive. “He said, ‘You don’t know what you want,’” she recalled. “He was stronger than me. It felt scary.” Despite her resistance, she continued seeing him, partly because he was one of the few people aware of her suicide attempt.

The relationship escalated when the doctor, referred to as Aron in the report, invited Linda to the hospital late at night. Security footage later captured him sneaking her into staff-only areas, where she alleged further non-consensual sexual contact. “The more I resisted, the worse it got,” she said.

Hospital staff eventually confronted Aron after spotting him with Linda on surveillance cameras. Friends of Linda, including one who drove her to meet him, grew suspicious of the late-night visits but remained unaware of the full extent of the abuse.

Yle reviewed text messages, photographs, medical records, and police interrogation materials as part of its investigation. The case has also been covered in Svenska Yle’s true-crime podcast Tinderläkaren.