22 December 2011
GP Behnaz YAZDANFAR MD (Ottawa 1994) found GUILTY. Will CPSO REGISTRAR GERACE RESIGN?
from TORONTO STAR
(Real estate agent) Krista Tabacoff Stryland, (1974-2007) was pronounced dead in North York Hosp shortly after paramedics took her there from GP Behnaz Yazdanfar’s cosmetic clinic (in a North Toronto office building).
The GP who was found incompetent in her care of cosmetic surgery patients – including Ms STRYLAND who died following a SIX LITER liposuction in 2007 .
Dr. Behnaz Yazdanfar was found to have displayed “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” conduct in her care of five patients following a TWO YEAR disciplinary hearing before the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons that ended in May 2011. PENALTY delayed for SEVEN MONTHS..
Yesterday the college suspended Yazdanfar’s licence for two years. After that, Dr. Yazdanfar will be restricted from SOLO surgery but will be permitted to ASSIST in surgery, including cosmetic procedures.
She was ordered Wednesday to appear before the college for a public reprimand within the next three months.
Yazdanfar was ordered to pay $219,000 in costs to the college within a year.
She must also co-operate with unannounced inspections of her practice and patient charts, conducted at her expense, and publish the terms of her restrictions at her clinic and on her website.
Like many doctors performing cosmetic procedures (in Ontario), Dr. Yazdanfar was never accredited as a plastic surgeon and holds no surgical designation.
Ms. Krista Stryland was pronounced dead in hospital shortly after paramedics took her from Dr.Yazdanfar’s cosmetic clinic. Court records obtained by the Star alleged Ms. Stryland lay in the clinic’s recovery room in serious condition for 30 minutes before anyone called 911.
Dr. Bruce Liberman, the anesthesiologist in the Stryland case, was also found to be incompetent. He is awaiting the result of a separate disciplinary hearing.
COMMENTS:
The CPSO was aware that GPs were perfoming surgery under GENERAL ANAESTHESIA in office buildings. The CPSO Registrar, past ER physician & CPSO Past President, , R.V. GERACE MD (UWO 72) FRCSC (ER 83) was aware of the danger for years and took no preventive action. As a direct result of this negligence a patient died; will Dr.Gerace resign?
Dr.Yazdanfar was represented by Lawyers Clayton Ruby CM BA(York 63) LLB (Tor.69) LLM(U.Cal.Berkeley) 11 Prince Arthur Av.,Yorkville,Tor. & Gardiner Roberts LLP partner Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd LLB( 83) Certificate in Health Law, They did a superb job: Dr. Yazdanfar did NOT lose her licence. Only a nominal "Suspension" for 2 years: no problem as the clinic can function withoout her medical services employing other doctors. Also Dr.Yazdanfar can do admin. duties. As for the CPSO legal costs of $219,000 (NOT A FINE) , this a moderate amount considering the gravity of the case. Also is TAX DEDUCTABLE.
(Real estate agent) Krista Tabacoff Stryland, (1974-2007) was pronounced dead in North York Hosp shortly after paramedics took her there from GP Behnaz Yazdanfar’s cosmetic clinic (in a North Toronto office building).
The GP who was found incompetent in her care of cosmetic surgery patients – including Ms STRYLAND who died following a SIX LITER liposuction in 2007 .
Dr. Behnaz Yazdanfar was found to have displayed “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” conduct in her care of five patients following a TWO YEAR disciplinary hearing before the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons that ended in May 2011. PENALTY delayed for SEVEN MONTHS..
Yesterday the college suspended Yazdanfar’s licence for two years. After that, Dr. Yazdanfar will be restricted from SOLO surgery but will be permitted to ASSIST in surgery, including cosmetic procedures.
She was ordered Wednesday to appear before the college for a public reprimand within the next three months.
Yazdanfar was ordered to pay $219,000 in costs to the college within a year.
She must also co-operate with unannounced inspections of her practice and patient charts, conducted at her expense, and publish the terms of her restrictions at her clinic and on her website.
Like many doctors performing cosmetic procedures (in Ontario), Dr. Yazdanfar was never accredited as a plastic surgeon and holds no surgical designation.
Ms. Krista Stryland was pronounced dead in hospital shortly after paramedics took her from Dr.Yazdanfar’s cosmetic clinic. Court records obtained by the Star alleged Ms. Stryland lay in the clinic’s recovery room in serious condition for 30 minutes before anyone called 911.
Dr. Bruce Liberman, the anesthesiologist in the Stryland case, was also found to be incompetent. He is awaiting the result of a separate disciplinary hearing.
COMMENTS:
The CPSO was aware that GPs were perfoming surgery under GENERAL ANAESTHESIA in office buildings. The CPSO Registrar, past ER physician & CPSO Past President, , R.V. GERACE MD (UWO 72) FRCSC (ER 83) was aware of the danger for years and took no preventive action. As a direct result of this negligence a patient died; will Dr.Gerace resign?
Dr.Yazdanfar was represented by Lawyers Clayton Ruby CM BA(York 63) LLB (Tor.69) LLM(U.Cal.Berkeley) 11 Prince Arthur Av.,Yorkville,Tor. & Gardiner Roberts LLP partner Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd LLB( 83) Certificate in Health Law, They did a superb job: Dr. Yazdanfar did NOT lose her licence. Only a nominal "Suspension" for 2 years: no problem as the clinic can function withoout her medical services employing other doctors. Also Dr.Yazdanfar can do admin. duties. As for the CPSO legal costs of $219,000 (NOT A FINE) , this a moderate amount considering the gravity of the case. Also is TAX DEDUCTABLE.
from UK Daily Mail
ReplyDeleteBy Michael Zennie
Authorities arrested a man in San Francisco, California, who they say impersonated a doctor and performed liposuction on a woman while smoking a cigar -- then flushed the liquid fat down her own toilet.
The woman, from Daly City, said she thought she was getting a bargain when Carlos Guzmangarza, 49, offered to perform the cosmetic surgery for just $3,000.
Instead, she got an infection after the procedure and had to have a real doctor do corrective surgery, authorities say.
Fake doc: Authorities say Carlos Guzmangarza smoked a cigar and made his patient hold her IV bag while he sucked out six pounds of fat
Guzmangarza impersonated a physician assistant with the same name and opened Derma Clinic in San Francisco. He claimed to be operating under the supervision of a doctor, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
But the state Attorney General's office says Guzmangarza has no license to practice as a physician assistant and there was no doctor associated with his clinic.
This could, perhaps, describe why the woman received such a low price from Guzmangarza when she was shopping around for a liposuction operation.
She told authorities that he picked her up in his car and drove her to his phoney clinic on San Francisco's mission street.
He gave her a local anesthetic to numb the area and made her hold her own IV bag during the procedure.
Guzmangarza smoked a cigar while he performed the surgery, the woman reported.
Fake clinic: The Attorney General's office says Guzmangarza ran an illegal clinic on Mission Street in San Francisco The next day, as the woman was recovering, he showed up at her house with a bag containing six pounds of her own liquid fat.
Authorities say he told the woman he needed a place to dispose of the material and flushed it down her toilet.
Guzmangarza also 'treated' the woman's daughter for acne by injecting an unknown substance into her face.
The woman, authorities say, never suspected anything until her abdomen became infected and she saw a real doctor.
She has since had additional cosmetic surgery to correct the job Guzmangarza did, the Attorney General's office said.
Guzmangarza was arrested and charged with practicing medicine without a license, assault with force most likely to cause great bodily harm, battery causing serious bodily harm, false impersonation, identity theft and grand theft.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078265/Fake-doctor-performs-liposuction-woman-smoking-cigar--returns-flushes-6-pounds-liquid-fat-toilet.html#ixzz1hSiv3LGL
from Toronto SUN Michele MANDEL
ReplyDeleteYazdanfar was a family physician with no surgical accreditation performing breast augmentations and liposuction in her North York clinic. So where was the medical watchdog?
She wasn’t violating any rules. Until outrage over Stryland’s death, virtually any doctor could put up a shingle and call themselves a cosmetic surgeon - and with the field so lucrative and unregulated, many did.
In 2006, Dr. Terry POLEVOY complained to the college about Yazdanfar’s lack of surgical qualifications. Nothing was done because there was no regulation requiring a doctor to have completed a surgical residency before performing cosmetic surgery.
Yazdanfar had completed hours of American training and the college had approved her request to change her “scope of practice” to cosmetic surgery. In its defence, they argued she was only doing small procedures under local anesthesia when she was reviewed in 2002 and not the large volume operations she began doing under general anesthetic.
“They should have done more,” Polevoy insisted. “If they had listened to me, maybe things would have changed sooner.”