London surgeon quits medicine in Ontario amid reprimand
2025-03-03 from lfpress.com
A London surgeon has resigned from practising medicine in Ontario and been ordered to pay $6,000 in legal costs to the regulator after treating three patients who were family members or close friends.
The Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal, the disciplinary arm of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, found Robert Richards engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct by providing medical care to family or close friends contrary to the regulator’s policy.
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