Revocation is the most severe penalty available in Ontario regulated health professions discipline. It removes the practitioner’s certificate of registration entirely, ending their right to practise the profession in Ontario. For physicians, revocation orders are made by the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal under the Health Professions Procedural Code, and they take effect immediately unless the Tribunal orders otherwise.
Revocation is reserved for the most serious cases of professional misconduct and incompetence. Categories of conduct that have historically attracted revocation include sexual abuse of a patient (for which the Code contains mandatory revocation provisions in respect of certain prohibited acts), repeated or egregious clinical incompetence, falsification of qualifications or records, serious financial misconduct, and conduct that demonstrates the registrant is ungovernable.
A revoked physician may apply for reinstatement after five years (or such longer period as the Tribunal orders), but reinstatement is not automatic. The applicant must demonstrate to the Tribunal’s satisfaction that they have addressed the underlying issues that led to revocation and that public safety would not be compromised by their return to practice. Many revocations are, in practical effect, permanent.
Posts tagged Revocation analyze Ontario discipline decisions in which a physician’s certificate of registration was revoked, including the conduct that supported revocation, any joint submissions on penalty, and the Tribunal’s reasoning.
An emergency physician was struck off after billing OHIP $125,353 for services he never rendered, including critical care and cardioversions with no record they ever happened, and then refusing to cooperate with the College’s investigation. A look at why records integrity and the duty to cooperate sit at the centre of physician accountability.
The Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal revoked Dr. Maharaj’s licence after finding his care of 17 patients fell below the standard of practice and that he was incompetent. A look at the consent, evidence-based-treatment and privacy findings, and what a discipline decision does and does not mean for an injured patient.
Ontario discipline tribunal revokes psychiatrist’s licence for issuing over 1,400 COVID exemption letters for profit, with dual misconduct and incompetence findings.
The Divisional Court affirms the OPSDT’s revocation of Dr. Trozzi’s licence. The Doré framework, the non-cooperation duty, and the limits of physician speech.
The OPSDT released two penalty decisions in January 2024 in COVID-19 misinformation cases. One physician received a six-month suspension. The other was found ungovernable and had his licence revoked.
A Northern Ontario physician’s certificate of registration was revoked for online misinformation, sharing of confidential investigative information, and clinical deficiencies.
A Windsor nephrologist’s certificate of registration was revoked after findings of professional misconduct and incompetence. He was ordered to pay $250,510 in costs.
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