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After being discovered responsible of sexual abuse involving sufferers and a nurse, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Self-discipline Tribunal has dominated that former Angus and Wasaga Seaside household doctor James McInnis will lose his licence to follow medication.
McInnis, who was absent throughout Wednesday’s tribunal proceedings, resigned from the School of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario by his authorized consultant. The choice comes about two months after McInnis was discovered responsible, on a stability of possibilities by the self-discipline tribunal, of sexual abuse. The discovering beneath the legislation requires a compulsory revocation of McInnis’ licence to follow medication.
The School of Physicians suspended McInnis in November 2019. He abruptly shut down his places of work in Angus and Wasaga Seaside after allegations of participating in inappropriate sexual relationships with feminine sufferers and a nurse who labored for him and served as a follow monitor after a earlier suspension by the School, stemming from an incident in 2013 when McInnis made advances on and kissed a nurse whereas working in a hospital emergency division.
On Wednesday, the self-discipline panel heard that on the time of that incident, McInnis was earlier than the tribunal for allegations of sexual misconduct regarding his time as a doctor at CFB Borden in 2011, for which he was discovered responsible and suspended for 3 months.
The tribunal additionally heard McInnis, who obtained his medical license 20 years in the past, had been convicted 3 times of participating in disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional conduct inside an eight-year timeframe, a historical past that Emily Graham, counsel for the School of Physicians, known as “troubling.”
Graham advised the panel, “Dr. McInnis’ misconduct displays an egregious breach of fiduciary obligations inherent within the physician/affected person relationship and a profound breach of the belief positioned in him as a doctor.”
She described McInnis’ behaviour as exploitative and predatory.
“He repeatedly used his place of energy in, what I submit as, a stunning vogue to additional his personal non-public pursuits, together with his personal sexual pursuits,” Graham continued.
“Solely a reprimand and revocation will convey to each the general public and the occupation {that a} doctor who exploits different folks for his personal sexual and private gratification can’t stay a member of the occupation,” she added.
Alongside along with his medical licence revocation, the School additionally requested McInnis to pay for the price of his hearings, plus remedy and counselling for his victims, totalling greater than $210,000.
