Ungovernability describes a physician whose repeated disregard of their regulator’s directions, conditions, or processes demonstrates an unwillingness or inability to be governed by the College. It is not a standalone statutory charge so much as a characterization that emerges from a pattern of conduct, and it weighs heavily in discipline outcomes.
Where a tribunal concludes that a member is ungovernable, it signals that lesser measures such as conditions, monitoring, or remediation have failed or would fail to protect the public, which points toward the most serious penalties, including revocation. Findings of this kind typically arise after a history of breached undertakings, ignored restrictions, or repeated misconduct. As with all discipline outcomes, the focus is public protection rather than compensation.
Posts tagged Ungovernable Physician analyze Ontario discipline decisions involving physicians found to be ungovernable and the penalties that followed.
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.
An Ontario tribunal ruled physicians have no Charter privacy interest in their patients’ records. Subsequent proceedings produced a 12-month suspension.
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