Doc Loses License Over 'Poor' Cancer Care, but Fights Back

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A physician has been stripped of his license to practice medicine for providing questionable care to his cancer patients.

A Canadian physician has been stripped of his license to practice medicine for providing questionable care to his cancer patients, according toThe move comes after an 8-year investigation into cancer care provided by Akbar Nauman Khan, MD.

"The allegations and guilty findings are false and based on evidence that the CPSO fabricated," Khan told. "I have contested all their allegations from Day one and will be filing an appeal against the license revocation in court." He also misled colleagues, the report noted, as well as taking thousands of dollars of public health care money to which he was not entitled. For instance, he billed Ontario Health Insurance Plan for palliative care when he was not providing it and when patients had declined palliative care.

 

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