This 32-year-old lawyer, a former patient of Dr. Allan Gordon, says she felt 'incredibly betrayed' when the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario let the pain specialist resign before she and other complainants could confront him about sexual-abuse allegations. 'I never got to look at him and say,"You abused my trust,"' she says.
Unbeknownst to them, the college’s complaints committee has decided to close the women’s cases and not publicly acknowledge their allegations. One former patient, a 32-year-old lawyer, tells The Globe and Mail afterward that she feels “incredibly betrayed” by the college. The many hours she spent describing Dr. Gordon’s alleged sexual abuse to investigators, causing her to relive it over and over again, were all for naught.“I never got to look at him and say, ‘You abused my trust,’” she says.
In a statement of defence to one of the lawsuits, Dr. Gordon denies the allegations. They have not been tested in court. Nancy Whitmore, registrar of the college, defended the settlement with Dr. Gordon. While a discipline hearing does not always go the college’s way, she told The Globe in an interview, a settlement guarantees the outcome.
The province’s medical watchdog dropped allegations against one in four doctors accused of sexual abuse over the past six years. In every case, the discipline committee found that the doctors engaged in “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” conduct – a catch-all provision intended to capture a persistent disregard for their professional obligations.
While legislation introduced in 2017 adopted many of the task force’s recommendations, Dr. Hoskins contends it did not go far enough and that the colleges should lose their power to investigate sexual abuse. Allowing a doctor to resign in the midst of a patient’s sexual-abuse complaint is “completely unacceptable,” said Marilou McPhedran, a senator and human-rights lawyer who has chaired three independent inquiries in Ontario on the sexual abuse of patients, including the most recent task force. “This kind of secrecy and silence protects perpetrators.”'All things considered, he was a boon for me medically,' this 27-year-old creative director says of Dr.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients with EDS started getting pain in her knees when she was a child. By the time she was a teenager, the pain had spread to her other joints. Now 27, she walks with a cane and is unable to work owing to chronic pain.
kahowlett LaVjosa The PM & MPs are guilty of sex related crimes.Why are people in positions of trust allowed to hold any office?.Cdns waste Bs of dollars in HRs Agencies & Women’s Rights support they don’t force compliance in Cda.Voters should remove international support until Cdns are safe.