discipline summaries noncompliance will be sanctioned . All members of the profession should be aware that applications for annual renewal of a member ’ s certificate of registration with the College , require complete and accurate reporting of offences , findings and settlements as well as any disciplinary action in other jurisdictions during the preceding year . Public institutions such as hospitals and universities have similar requirements which physicians must comply with . Physicians seeking hospital or university appointments or renewal of their privileges are required to report fully and accurately complaints , investigations , findings , restrictions and legal actions against them in the preceding year . Different institutions may have slightly different reporting obligations in the information they require . Dr . Varenbut failed in meeting this reporting requirement not once , but multiple times over several years , with multiple hospitals and the university where he taught . This failure is intolerable , even if inadvertent as submitted by his counsel . To disregard one ’ s professional obligations through a lack of diligence and to mislead public institutions are serious matters . A three-month suspension is a significant penalty , within the range established by previous decisions of this Committee . A public reprimand is also a significant penalty . They demonstrate to Dr . Varenbut , and to the profession and the public , that professional misconduct of this sort cannot and will not be tolerated . Counsel submitted that Dr . Varenbut cooperated fully with the College ’ s investigation . By admitting to the allegation , he avoided a lengthy contested hearing and spared witnesses having to testify . In the circumstances , limiting the award of costs to the College to the tariff amount for a single day ($ 4,460 ), although representing a fraction of the true costs incurred , was accepted as appropriate by the Committee . In summary , the Committee directed that Dr . Varenbut ’ s certificate of registration be suspended for three months , that he receive a reprimand , and pay costs in the amount of $ 4,460 .
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At the conclusion of the hearing , Dr . Varenbut waived his right to an appeal and the Committee administered the public reprimand .
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Dr . LMN
On July 26 , 2016 , the Discipline Committee found that the allegation that Dr . LMN committed an act of professional misconduct in that he engaged in sexual abuse of a patient was not proven . The Committee also found that the allegation that Dr . LMN engaged in conduct or an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that , having regard to all the circumstances , would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful , dishonourable , or unprofessional was not proven . The allegations of professional misconduct in this case arose from Dr . LMN ’ s alleged behaviour during Ms . A ’ s April 2014 office visit , her third visit to his office . Ms . A alleged that Dr . LMN , a dermatologist , touched her breasts in a sexual manner at the office visit and failed to provide privacy to her during that same visit . Dr . LMN testified that he had no independent recollection of Ms . A . During his testimony , he relied on his handwritten and typed clinical notes . He also referred to his usual practice when he sees patients in consultation .
Allegation 1 Ms . A testified that , at end of the third visit , she stood on the stool while Dr . LMN examined her legs . She testified that , when she sat down on the examination table afterward , he suddenly put both his hands down her bra and cupped her breasts . Ms . A demonstrated how Dr . LMN extended both his hands backwards at the wrists , rotated his arms and hands so that the fingers were pointing down-
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