A FORUM on ONTARIO MEDICINE: business and professional Information from various contributors edited by Dr.Alex Franklin MBBS(Lond.)Dip.Phys.Med(UK) DPH & DIH(Tor.)LMC(C)FLex(USA).Fellow Med.Soc.London, Liveryman of London Society of Apothecaries. Freeman of City of London. Member Toronto Faculty club & Toronto Medico-Legal society.
29 Jan 2014
CPSO TRIBUNAL DATES FEB (FREE ENTRY to ANYONE)
February 2014
Effective as of January 23, 2014
Doctor
Date
Summary of Allegations
POWELL, Gerald Wayne
Ottawa
February 3
Failure to maintain the standard of practice of the profession.
Engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.
WOOLLAM, Robin Charles
Mississauga
February 5
Sexual abuse of a patient.
Engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.
Has been found guilty of an offence that is relevant to his suitability to practice.
BHUPAL, Vipul Kumar
Toronto
February 7
Hearing will be held in the council chambers on the 3rd Floor, start time 9:00 a.m.
Failure to maintain the standard of practice of the profession.
Engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.He had a conflict of interest.
Incompetence.
SOARES, Claudio De Novaes
Practice Address not available
February 7
Motion
Sexual abuse of a patient.
Engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.
ABAWI, Walid
Toronto
February 10
Penalty hearing
Hearing will be held in the council chambers on the 3rd Floor, start time 9:00 a.m.
On September 12, 2013, the Discipline Committee found that Dr. Walid Abawi committed an act of professional misconduct, in that he has engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.
EISEN, Hillel David
Toronto
February 12
Motion
Hearing will be held in the council chambers on the 3rd Floor, start time 9:00 a.m.
Sexual abuse of a patient.
Engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.
SIKANETA, Samuel Sibafuzi
Practice Address not available
February 24-28
Sexual abuse of patients.
Failure to maintain the standard of practice of the profession.
Engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.
Incompetence.
28 Jan 2014
Tor.Western Hosp Paul HELLIWELL LIBRARY
Paul Helliwell (right) was born in China in 1917 to parents who were missionaries, and died in 2001. After serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War, he started a career in the banking industry and went on to own several manufacturing firms with his wife, Neta. They were married for almost 50 years until her death in 1985. Several years later, Helliwell remarried and he and his wife, June, were together for 10 years. Though he was never a father himself, he was a father figure to many and gave generously to various charitable causes.
Excellent selection of Medical books available on loan.
DUBAI: Canadian Group to Medical exhibition
Member of Ont.Health Innovation Council, Orthopaedic surgeon,Pres & CEO Univ. Health Network Dr. Robert S.BELL MDCM( 1975) MSc(Tor. 1981) FRCS(C)-Fellow @ Mass.Gen & Harvard now in Dubai with Canadian Trade commission selling Hosp management.
25 Jan 2014
NEW GRAD using XRAY instead of examining abdomen and doing a rectal.
Toronto Western & Toronto General resident JENNY YUJING WANG MD (Tor. 2012) CPSO # 98206 at 2130 hrs 24 Jan. ordered
a portable xray for 8th floor medical ward sleeping (female) patient with Marrow failure due to Mult. Myeloma. Patient had distended abdomen. During five days in hospital passed liquid stool and flatus. First year grad. Dr.WANG had not examined the abdomen and had not done a rectal exam. The xray showed faeces. A glycerol suppository was ordered.
23 Jan 2014
TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL: MRSA INFECTION on 8th floor MEDICAL WARD.
MRSA at Toronto Western Hospital Room 180. Elderly female with COPD & Splenomegaly.
Patients'naries not swabed om admission. Patient in room 180 in hosp for at least 4 days before MRSA diagnosed. "Private" rooms filled with patients with "communicable diseases". Nursing services overwhelmed.
Administration has not officially informed patients and relatives about MRSA outbreak.
WARNING: HOSPITALISATION in CENTRAL TORONTO TEACHING HOSPITALS
Difficult to find single rooms , many filled with pts with AIDS & other communicable diseases. When private rooms available,$300/24 hrs with OHIP. Understaffed nursing services. Strongly advised to hire personal experienced Registered nurse from Agencies. As nursing uniforms no longer worn, difficult to tell nurses from cleaners.
20 Jan 2014
WEIGHT-LOSS Dr S.K.BERNSTEIN MD(Tor.1966) invested $100million in property:lawyers Mrs N.J & Mr.R WALTON.accused of theft.
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Lawyer accused of ‘theft’ against Dr. Bernstein restricted from practising real estate law Featured
Monday, 20 January 2014 08:01 | Written By Yamri Taddese | Print | Email
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A Law Society of Upper Canada hearing panel has temporarily restricted a lawyer from practising real estate law after a court-ordered investigation found her to have diverted millions of dollars from a joint investment without the knowledge of her business partner, well-known weight-loss physician Dr. Stanley Bernstein.
The law society is seeking an interlocutory suspension of Norma Jean Walton and her husband Ronauld’s licences to practise law following a finding that their company misappropriated funds.
On Jan. 13, lawyers for the couple requested an adjournment of the suspension motion due to the need for additional time for preparation. In the meantime, Norma —“the primary actor” in the financial misuse, according to law society counsel Lisa Freeman — can’t practise real estate law.
According to court documents in civil proceedings related to the case, mortgages worth $6 million were discharged from joint investment projects the Waltons owned with Bernstein without his approval. A court-ordered investigation also found that $2.1 million in mortgage proceeds was diverted from the joint investments.
Of that sum, $400,000 went into Norma’s personal bank account; $353,000 was used to repay a loan owed by the couple’s company, the Rose and Thistle Group Ltd.; and $154,600 was transferred to other companies owned by the Waltons. An additional $268,000 that went into renovating the Waltons’ home at 44 Park Lane Circle also has “all the appearances of another case of theft,” wrote Superior Court Justice Frank Newbould in DBCD Spadina Ltd. v. Norma Walton on Nov. 5, 2013.
The Waltons participated in 31 projects with Bernstein in which they had a 50-per-cent share. Bernstein has invested more than $100 million in the joint projects. In a strongly worded November 2013 endorsement, Newbould said Norma’s actions were akin to theft.
“Ms. Walton admits that $2.1 million was ‘diverted’ and used outside the 31 projects. She admits it should not have been done without Dr. Bernstein’s consent. She offers excuses that do not justify what she did. What happened here, not to put too fine a point on it, was theft,” wrote Newbould.
He added: “Ms. Walton was well aware that this was wrong. She is a lawyer and the agreements were drawn in her office.”
While Freeman argued Newbould’s wording in the endorsement included “strong statements” that merit an interlocutory suspension, Norma’s counsel, Howard Cohen, said she’s appealing the statements made by the judge. Since the matter before the judge wasn’t an allegation of theft, Newbould “really went beyond what was before the court,” Cohen told the hearing panel last week. He also argued it would be “manifestly unfair” to suspend Norma’s licence without giving her a chance to explain herself.
Freeman contested Cohen’s argument, saying Norma had plenty of opportunity to explain herself as she was able to file three affidavits in the civil proceedings.
But Cohen, who noted his client was already “under siege,” said there was no need to suspend her licence as she’s not a danger to the public.
“The situation at the present time is that Ms. Walton does not practise law in any way,” he said, adding his client limits her legal work to her own company. As to any work she’s currently doing, Cohen assured the panel that “there are more eyes on her than you can possibly imagine.”
He added: “Her hands are tied.”
Both Cohen and Brian Greenspan, counsel for Ronauld, said a licence suspension would unnecessarily ruin their clients’ reputations and bias their case in the civil proceedings.
But Freeman told the hearing panel chaired by Bencher Barbara Murchie that its prime responsibility is public safety and not the reputation of the lawyers.
“It’s unfortunate that reputational damage is a biproduct of these orders, but that’s not really before the panel,” she said.
Greenspan said Ronauld “does not practise law at all” and that suspending his licence would be “for no reason at all.” Freeman said while the law society deems Norma to be the main actor in the alleged breach of the agreement with Bernstein, Ronauld is also implicated as a “beneficiary” of the proceeds.
Freeman said that since Norma used her Teranet access to discharge mortgages without Bernstein’s approval, the panel should restrict her from making any use of it. “If a licensee is diverting millions of dollars from a business partner, it’s a question of integrity,” she said.
In the compromise that followed, the law society agreed not to suspend Norma’s licence in the weeks between Jan. 13 and the motion hearing date as long as Norma doesn’t practise real estate law. The motion is scheduled to proceed on Feb. 5.
Norma has a disciplinary record with the law society. In 2007, she received a reprimand following a finding of professional misconduct related to “comingling” of client funds with corporate and financial accounts.
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