CPSO has often cloaked multiple offenders in secrecy and protected the physician’s interests over that of very vulnerable patients. Some years ago a College investigator recorded that a well-known Insurer Medical Examination (IME) provider said that “in his view, there are three types of patients:
1. Patients with nothing wrong with them who are “pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes”
2. Patients with no problem who think they have a problem. These patients actually believe that there is something wrong with them, even though there is not.
3. Patients with minor problem who have exaggerated this problem into something much bigger than it is.”
Ultimately the physician who had revealed his bias and potential to stand in the way of treatments for Ontario’s MVA victims was only sent for a private and confidential oral caution.
FAIR letter to CPSO regarding Transparency Project Phase 2 Mar 31 2015
Comments to CPSO http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=5062