discipline summaries
DR. VIPUL KUMAR BHUPAL
Practice Location: Toronto
Area of Practice: General Practice
Hearing Information: Agreed Statement of Facts,
Admission, Joint Submission on Penalty
On June 6, 2014, the Discipline Committee found that
Dr. Bhupal committed an act of professional misconduct, in that he failed to maintain the standard of
practice of the profession. Dr. Bhupal admitted to the
allegation.
The referral related to an investigation regarding the
appropriateness of Dr. Bhupal’s referrals of patients for
cardiac testing to Company 1, who rented part of his
office space from him.
Patient A
Dr. Bhupal ordered echocardiograms without appropriate indications, and failed to order a lipid profile to
fully assess the patient’s cardiovascular risk. Further, Dr.
Bhupal failed to refer the patient to a cardiologist for a
nuclear stress test following her echocardiograms and
stress echocardiograms, and failed to maintain the standard of practice with respect to record-keeping, in that
his chart lacked adequate means of tracking test results.
Patient B
Dr. Bhupal ordered multiple echocardiograms and stress
echocardiograms without sufficient indication for this
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