A woman thought the first kiss had been a cultural misunderstanding, but then came two more, a court was told.
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She also alleged her doctor squeezed her on the bottom during an Anzac Day consultation last year.
But Dr Ammar Dhaimat, 39, of Duffy, denied the exchange ever happened, saying their patient-doctor relationship was always professional.
Dr Dhaimat, pictured, went on trial on Thursday for allegedly committing two acts of indecency on the university student at a northside medical centre in April.
The ACT Supreme Court heard the 21-year-old became Dr Dhaimat's patient in March when she searched online for a doctor after moving from Sydney to study at the University of Canberra.
He prescribed the woman, who was a vegan, with a course of injections as she was vitamin B12 deficient. This required her to return regularly for the shots.
In court the woman said Dr Dhaimat's questions became more personal and his demeanour increasingly friendly at each consultation. She said he gave her his personal number three times, complimented her skin as "glowing", and invited her to dinner.
She said that, at the Anzac Day consultation, Dr Dhaimat had just given her the injection at a nurse station when he "clasped her" with his right hand on her lower back and attempted to kiss her on the mouth.
But she twisted her head and his lips instead landed on her left cheek, she said. When she asked why he had done it, he allegedly replied: "For luck."
The woman said she had thought it might have been a "cultural thing" and did not want to "freak out".
But when the pair returned to his office to collect her personal belongings, he allegedly grabbed her, squeezed her bottom, and kissed her again.
She said she withdrew, but he grabbed her and kissed her a third time.
She "bolted out of the surgery" and drove home to immediately get changed. "I felt dirty," she said.
Under cross examination, defence counsel Theresa Warwick said the doctor had given the woman a card only once and his number had been written on it.
Two cards were admitted as evidence, but Ms Warwick suggested the woman had taken the second from the desk of her own accord. But the woman said she had seen the accused write his personal number on the business card on all three occasions.
When the barrister said the doctor had only suggested the restaurant, not invited her to have dinner with him, the woman replied: "One hundred per cent he asked me to go to the restaurant with him."
The woman's housemate told the court the woman had returned from the surgery crying and in a distressed state. The housemate said the woman had previously described Dr Dhaimat as a father figure who seemed interested and cared about her life.
But the defendant, in an interview with police the next day, said the incident "never happened" and described his association with the woman as a "patient-doctor relationship".
The trial before Justice John Burns continues on Friday.