Committee: Discipline
Decision Date: 19 May 1989
Summary:
In May 1989, the Discipline Committee found Dr. Peter Wing-To Chan guilty of professional misconduct, as defined in s. 27(21) of Ontario Regulation 448/80, as amended, in that he failed to maintain the standard of practice of the profession. Consequently, the Committee ordered that Dr. Chan be reprimanded, with the fact of the reprimand to be recorded on the Register. It was further ruled that Dr. Chan's licence to practice be suspended for a period of one year, but that this suspension would itself be suspended provided that the following conditions were met: he must agree to be evaluated by the McMaster Physician Evaluation Program; he was successfully to complete any course of retraining or instruction that the Program might recommend; he was to file with the Registrar of the College, in a form satisfactory to the Registrar, proof that he had satisfactorily completed the evaluation and any retraining or instruction recommended by the Program within one year of this Order becoming final; he was to consent to the release by the College to the administrators of the Program these reasons for decision together with any other information concerning this case that might assist the administrators of the Program; and he was to be responsible for any fees, costs or other expenses incidental to the evaluation by the Program and the completion of any courses of retraining or instruction that the Program might recommend.
Appeal: Appeal Abandoned
Hearing Date(s): 15 May 1989