discipline summaries edgment in a form provided, indicating that they had been advised of all of this information.
Investigation regarding Patient A Patient A was Dr. Dobrowolski’ s patient between approximately February 2006 and May 2011, having sought treatment for panic attacks and anxiety.
During the doctor-patient relationship:
• Dr. Dobrowolski touched Patient A in a sexual manner, including her breasts, legs, vaginal area and anal area, in the guise of a medical examination;
• Dr. Dobrowolski shaved Patient A’ s legs and pubic area during medical appointments for a sexual purpose;
• Dr. Dobrowolski took photographs and videos of Patient A during medical appointments, on some occasions without her knowledge, including photographs and videos in which she was fully or partially nude and was being touched by Dr. Dobrowolski;
• Dr. Dobrowolski purchased lingerie for Patient A to wear and photographed her wearing it during medical appointments;
• Dr. Dobrowolski inappropriately showed photographs of other patients’ genital areas to Patient A during medical appointments;
• Dr. Dobrowolski hugged and kissed Patient A during medical appointments;
• Dr. Dobrowolski offered to undress during Patient A’ s medical appointment;
• Dr. Dobrowolski made inappropriate and sexual remarks to Patient A during medical appointments; and
• Dr. Dobrowolski gave and lent money and items to Patient A during medical appointments.
Dr. Dobrowolski breached the terms, conditions or limitations of his certificate of registration and the Divisional Court Order in his conduct towards Patient A. During the entire time period that he treated Patient A, Dr. Dobrowolski was subject to the terms, conditions or limitations on his certificate of registration and the Divisional Court Order. He did so by conducting what purported to be physical examinations of Patient A. In addition, although he had Patient A sign the acknowledgement required by the Divisional Court’ s Order, Dr. Dobrowolski gave Patient A false and misleading information about the terms on his certificate of registration, and the reasons for them, including his discipline history. In July 2012, as a result of information received from Patient A and her husband, College investigators attended at Dr. Dobrowolski’ s office to obtain any computers used in his practice, together with thumb drives, disc drives, storage units, and cameras for inspection and analysis. The College retained a computer forensics expert to perform a forensic analysis of the materials obtained from Dr. Dobrowolski’ s office. Preliminary results of his analysis showed numerous images of Patient A from Dr. Dobrowolski’ s computer that the expert had recovered, including nude and partially nude images. The images were derived from videos taken on a computer camera, from which screen shots were taken and saved by Dr. Dobrowolski. Though Patient A believed Dr. Dobrowolski was performing physical examinations on her, in fact he had been touching her for a sexual purpose and filming himself doing so. In addition, the expert recovered thousands of images of other nude and partially nude women. The images were captured in Dr. Dobrowolski’ s medical office, in some cases while the women interacted with Dr. Dobrowolski, for example while he handled their breasts, and in some cases without the woman’ s face being visible. The expert also recovered two videos of women in their underwear and / or nude, taken in Dr. Dobrowolski’ s medical office, in which Dr. Dobrowolski touched the women, including their breasts and vaginal areas. Both videos and many images had been deleted prior to the expert’ s analysis. Upon the College’ s receipt of the preliminary results of the computer forensics analysis, on October 10, 2012, the ICRC referred allegations to the Discipline Committee and suspended Dr. Dobrowolski’ s certificate of registration without notice.
At the same time, another investigation was commenced by the College, based on the information obtained in the investigation into Dr. Dobrowolski’ s conduct towards Patient A, including in particular the
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