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An Ottawa doctor who caused a public health scare in 2011 after her endoscopy clinic failed a health inspection has agreed to never practise medicine again.
Dr. Christiane Farazli was publicly reprimanded Thursday by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons for disregarding the safety of patients and ignoring the fundamental principles of infection control.
“Not only did you subject your patients to a very real risk of significant harm, your actions resulted in emotional distress and anxiety for thousands of patients as well as major costs to society for the investigations of blood-borne disease that were subsequently necessary,” the college’s disciplinary committee told Ottawa Farazli in a sharply worded rebuke.
Farazli stopped performing endoscopies at her clinic on Carling Avenue in 2011 after she was accused of using improper cleaning procedures for patients treated between April 2002 and June 2011, among other actions.
On Thursday, she told the college’s disciplinary committee she would undertake to never practise medicine again. Had she not done so, the committee said, she would have faced “the most severe penalities available to the college,” which would include losing her medical licence.
Not only did Farazli risk harming patients through improper safety and sterilization procedures, but the disciplinary committee found that she treated multiple patients at her endoscopy clinic “in a manner which can only be described as abusive.
“It is hard to think of a more vulnerable position for these patients. To treat patients in this position with gross insensitivity and disregard of their discomfort is unconscionable.”
Among other things, the college alleged that Farazli failed to provide patients with enough sedation to be comfortable and “persisting with a procedure despite a patient’s request to stop due to unbearable pain.”
After her clinic failed health inspections, Ottawa Public Health officials sent 6,800 letters to people who had received treatments at the clinic warning them to get tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. No cases of the illnesses were found to be linked to the clinic.
The college, which is the governing body for physicians in Ontario, accused her of acting in a “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” manner in relation to patients through “callous, rough and unprofessional communications with patients, maintaining inaccurate notes, proposing to engage a sales representative to assist her in a procedure when no nurse was available, and exposing patients to potential infection.”
The hearing was based on testimony of 20 former patients. A class-action lawsuit, that has not been resolved, was filed against her in 2011.
The college is expected to release a full written decision on the case in several weeks.
epayne@ottawacitizen.com
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Dr. Christiane Farazli was publicly reprimanded Thursday by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons for disregarding the safety of patients and ignoring the fundamental principles of infection control.
“Not only did you subject your patients to a very real risk of significant harm, your actions resulted in emotional distress and anxiety for thousands of patients as well as major costs to society for the investigations of blood-borne disease that were subsequently necessary,” the college’s disciplinary committee told Ottawa Farazli in a sharply worded rebuke.
Farazli stopped performing endoscopies at her clinic on Carling Avenue in 2011 after she was accused of using improper cleaning procedures for patients treated between April 2002 and June 2011, among other actions.
On Thursday, she told the college’s disciplinary committee she would undertake to never practise medicine again. Had she not done so, the committee said, she would have faced “the most severe penalities available to the college,” which would include losing her medical licence.
Not only did Farazli risk harming patients through improper safety and sterilization procedures, but the disciplinary committee found that she treated multiple patients at her endoscopy clinic “in a manner which can only be described as abusive.
“It is hard to think of a more vulnerable position for these patients. To treat patients in this position with gross insensitivity and disregard of their discomfort is unconscionable.”
Among other things, the college alleged that Farazli failed to provide patients with enough sedation to be comfortable and “persisting with a procedure despite a patient’s request to stop due to unbearable pain.”
After her clinic failed health inspections, Ottawa Public Health officials sent 6,800 letters to people who had received treatments at the clinic warning them to get tested for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. No cases of the illnesses were found to be linked to the clinic.
The college, which is the governing body for physicians in Ontario, accused her of acting in a “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” manner in relation to patients through “callous, rough and unprofessional communications with patients, maintaining inaccurate notes, proposing to engage a sales representative to assist her in a procedure when no nurse was available, and exposing patients to potential infection.”
The hearing was based on testimony of 20 former patients. A class-action lawsuit, that has not been resolved, was filed against her in 2011.
The college is expected to release a full written decision on the case in several weeks.
epayne@ottawacitizen.com
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