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Physician suspended for eight months for sexual harassment and boundary violations with junior colleagues.
The College alleged that the registrant committed professional misconduct by engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional conduct, and conduct unbecoming a physician, through sexual harassment and boundary violations involving two younger female colleagues over whom he held professional and academic power.
The registrant did not contest the allegations.
The Tribunal found professional misconduct and accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordering a reprimand, an eight-month suspension, and $6,000 in costs.
Judicial review granted in part; Board unreasonably denied OHIP billing relief for mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
The applicant physician sought judicial review of a Board decision requiring her to reimburse OHIP over $600,000 for COVID-19 vaccinations administered at mass clinics.
The Board found the applicant failed to meet strict billing requirements for delegated services because the medical students and other physicians who administered the vaccines were not her 'employees'.
The Divisional Court upheld the Board's interpretation of the delegation requirements as reasonable.
However, the Court found the Board's refusal to grant relief under the 'extenuating circumstances' provision of the Health Insurance Act was unreasonable, given the context of the global pandemic and the applicant's good faith efforts to facilitate mass vaccinations.
The matter was remitted to the Board to determine the appropriate reimbursement amount.
