Rajiv Butany

In a professional discipline hearing, the panel found that the registrant persistently failed to comply with mandatory continuing education and reporting obligations under the quality assurance regime, despite repeated directions, reminders, extensions, and investigative follow-up.

The panel also denied a last-minute adjournment request brought through the registrant's daughter, finding insufficient evidence of inability to participate and no indication the registrant would engage later.

Applying the balance of probabilities standard, the panel held that the registrant failed to cooperate with the Quality Assurance Committee, breached the continuing education reporting requirements, failed to respond appropriately to written College enquiries, and engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional or unethical conduct.

A further hearing was directed on penalty and costs.

In a professional discipline hearing, the panel accepted admissions to sexual abuse of a patient, excessive opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing, self-prescribing and office-use prescribing of benzodiazepines, improper non-dental prescribing, misuse of nitrous oxide and cocaine, and prescription record-keeping failures.

The panel combined two notices of hearing, found professional misconduct on all allegations except withdrawn particulars, and held that the admitted sexual relationship with a patient constituted sexual abuse within the Code.

Applying the public-interest test for joint penalty submissions, the panel accepted a jointly proposed sanction.

Because the misconduct included sexual abuse of a patient who was not the registrant’s spouse, revocation was mandatory under the Code.

The panel also ordered a reprimand and $10,000 in costs.