N.B. doctor fired for checking files of female patients, co-workers, people at gym
From thestar.com
MONCTON, N.B.—A Moncton doctor who checked the medical files of more than 100 young women, including co-workers, waitresses and women he met at the gym and bars, has been fired.
Dr. Fernando Rojas Lievano accessed 141 electronic patient files on 350 separate occasions — all women, all between the ages of 13 and 39.
Dr. Ed Schollenberg, registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick, confirmed Thursday he received notice this week from the local health authority that Rojas had been fired.
Schollenberg said there had been a “great deal of anxiety” among staff at Moncton’s Dr. Georges L. Dumont Hospital Centre about his potential return to work. Rojas Lievano, 52, had been on various forms of leave since shortly after the allegations came to light.
“They . . . didn’t want him to come back and they didn’t want to work with him,” said Schollenberg.
Rojas admitted snooping on the women’s files, according to a 2014 report by the province’s privacy commissioner, Anne Bertrand.
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