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 Michael Alexander has latched onto part of that tribunal’s decision to come back fighting.
The tribunal, which hears disciplinary cases within the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), agreed with Alexander that CPSO’s requirements for doctors during the pandemic were “simply recommendations or guidelines; they did not have the force of law,” Alexander said at a new hearing on March 10….