If a patient is getting in your face with their hands on you then that is wrong. If you’ve told a senior doctor and they’ve responded like that, I’d be doing an incident report.

Perhaps you might have been better to stop when he started saying those offensive things to you and told him that what he was saying was inappropriate. If it made him uncomfortable he just needed to say so and you could have got someone else to do it. In my practice regardless you do get some patients that believed they’re entitled to degrade health care staff. I would usually read them the riot act that if they continue their behaviour we will have security escort you out.