When COVID-related public health orders were at their most stringent, many doctors questioned or refused to comply with them. Such doctors have since gone through months of disciplinary hearings and now we’re starting to see how their cases are decided. How such cases play out in Ontario could influence how they play out across the…
COVID ‘Censorship’ Key Issue in Tribunal Hearings Against Ontario Doctor: Lawyer
Dr. Mark Trozzi made public comments against COVID-19 public health measures, and his professional regulator may revoke his medical license for what it says is “professional misconduct.” “Ultimately, Dr. Trozzi’s case is about whether we will have state censorship in this country,” his lawyer, Michael Alexander, said on June 13 as a series of tribunal…
Ontario Doctor With Contrarian Views on Pandemic Policy Permanently Loses Medical Licence
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) has permanently suspended the medical licence of Dr. Patrick Brian Phillips after its discipline tribunal found that he was “incompetent” and undermined Canada’s public health response to COVID-19. “We are dismayed by the deliberate steps you took to undermine the public health response to the COVID-19…
Ontario Doctors Critical of COVID Policy Bring New Challenge Against College Censure
Disciplinary investigations against three Ontario doctors should never have started, their lawyer says, because they were breaching “mere guidelines” related to COVID-19 and not breaking a code of professional conduct. The doctors—Crystal Luchkiw, Patrick Phillips, and Mark Trozzi—seemed to take a blow earlier this year when a tribunal rejected their motion to halt proceedings. But lawyer…
Ontario Doctor Decries ‘Medical Tyranny’ After Being Barred From Issuing Vaccine, Mask Exemptions
An Ontario family physician says he is “proud” of taking a stand against “medical tyranny” after the province’s medical regulator barred him from issuing medical exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and mask requirements. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) alleged that Dr. Patrick Phillips “engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct” in…
Doctor Has No Right to Francophone Panel, Ontario Discipline Committee Rules
TORONTO—A francophone doctor accused of misconduct by Ontario’s medical regulator has lost his bid to have his case heard by a French-speaking disciplinary panel. In ruling against Dr. Mathieu Belanger, the discipline committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario decided he had no right to a panel that could operate in French…
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