The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario says it cannot conclude Dr. Marko Duic intentionally engaged in gender discrimination
This was the second time the college had examined Dr. Marko Duic ’s hiring practices, as well as allegations of improper billing, following a 2019 Globe investigation.Ontario’s regulator of medical doctors has, for the second time, cleared a former high-profile emergency room physician for alleged gender discrimination and improper billing. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario was forced to conduct the probe after a panel of judges deemed its first investigation inadequate.
The key findings from the college’s decision, which is not a public document, were shared with The Globe and Mail by Mr. Kastner, who summarized them in an interview. The college released its decision to Mr. Kastner in June. In its second investigation, the college’s investigative committee interviewed more than 10 witnesses, according to Mr. Kastner. The committee heard evidence of Dr. Duic making discriminatory comments about women, but argued it couldn’t obtain adequate first-hand accounts to prove these accounts, Mr. Kastner said. Although the committee’s decision advised Dr. Duic to recognize and avoid implicit biases, it ultimately found that it could not support a finding of discrimination.
In his interview with The Globe, Mr. Kastner criticized the college’s decision to accept the denials of discrimination by Dr. Duic and “the male doctors who worked with him to manage his all-male ER departments.” Despite the fact that discrimination cases are difficult to prove, Mr. Kastner said that in this case “the evidence of discrimination was unusually strong.”
According to a number of doctors interviewed, there would be no need to fill out a form for a nursing home patient with flexion contractures because that person wouldn’t be capable of driving. At St. Joseph’s emergency department, 2,902 MTO forms were filled out from April to December of 2011, a time when Dr. Duic was the hospital’s emergency chief. In comparison, 214 such forms were filled out in 2017.
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