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 pandemic,” the tribunal said in its decision dated June 6.
“As a physician, the information you communicate is trusted by many. Your communications to colleagues, patients, and your thousands of followers on social media regarding COVID-19 and public health response measures, were careless, often offensive and at times, possibly harmful.”…