Posted on 05/10/2023 4:38:08 AM PDT by jerod
Regulator rules doctor engaged in disgraceful or unprofessional conduct in his care of 10 patients
A gynecologist at the centre of a years-long CBC investigation had his medical licence suspended for four months following a regulatory hearing in early March.
Dr. David Gerber, of Meridia Medical in midtown Toronto, pleaded no contest to allegations from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) that he engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct in his care and treatment of 10 patients over the course of more than a decade.
"We are deeply disturbed by your repeated misconduct," said the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal, who delivered Gerber a formal reprimand.
"You failed to ensure that patients sufficiently understood the procedures you were to perform and what they would involve," it said. "When patients expressed pain and discomfort, you failed to demonstrate adequate sensitivity to what they were experiencing and dismissed their concerns. In some instances, you also made patients uncomfortable by making inappropriate comments about their appearance while conducting sensitive procedures."
According to a statement of facts Gerber does not contest, he told a patient during an appointment "that she had 'beautiful' eyes."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
There's woke... And then... There's ultra woke.
I wonder how much this patient will pocket because the doctor gave her an innocuous compliment.
However, his public profile shows that in 2018 he received an in-person caution "with respect to his communications and being sensitive to patient discomfort during examinations." The caution notes that "Gerber has been the subject of several previous complaints" regarding the same issues.
... with respect to inspections of Meridia Medical. the college was unable to complete two surprise inspections. In the first instance, Gerber denied the assessor entry into the office. When a college representative revisited about two weeks later, Gerber stated they could remain onsite but could not speak with any of his staff or patients, and could not go in his operating or procedure rooms.
From this article, we are still unable to understand the complaints from his patients. "Patient discomfort" is a catch-all phrase for ...??
Otherwise it looks like he failed some "inspections" - for al least 5 years.
Is this a serious offense or just the medical establishment having a tiff with an un-favored member?
Yeah, but when you are on some exam table and some fella is looking and probing up your hoo hah and tells you that you have beautiful eyes you have to wonder. I would have told him “Oh really? You have a couple long nose hairs.”
“That’s not my eyes”
Good luck building the practice back up after this
Read the four page reprimand.
There’s a link to it in the article.
This smells like BS to me.
Something else is going on, something else that the CBC clearly doesn’t want to get to the bottom of.
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What I don’t understand is why some medical school students say, “I want to specialize in cooters!”
Why is a gynecologist looking at her eyes?........................😉
Gynecologists always talking ‘shop’...............
Gerber is a kinky doc.
I do not know how many complaints from patients that the Canadian CBC receives on any physician.
Usually most complaints are centered are the cost of services ...
But the way that they chose to reprimand this physician, and the reason given, did not make sense to me either.
And the five years to decide to act ...
A nice 4 month hiatus in Fiji and its back to staring at random vaginas for a living. Kibosh the perv act or they will tar and feather you next time.
Even more bazar... “I want to specialize in poopers.”
Worse than “I believe I should like to spend my professional life shoving cameras up old men’s weenies. Yes, that’s the life for me.” ?
I just underwent a colonoscopy without sedation and now you’re bringing up camera’s going into weenies... Ouch!
BTW - When they say sedation, or no sedation? Go with the sedation.
The conversation with your proctologist is interesting during the procedure, especially when he says ‘it’s okay to fart’, but the rather sharp pain I endured while he maneuvered around the corners was somewhat disconcerting.
Well, since the left leaning state sponsored CBC, the the Doctor must be a conservative.
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