Ontario Doctors Critical of COVID Policy Bring New Challenge Against College Censure

Ontario Doctors Critical of COVID Policy Bring New Challenge Against College Censure
A nurse prepares a COVID-19 vaccine in Toronto on March 23, 2021. Cole Burston/Getty Images
Tara MacIsaac
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Disciplinary investigations against three Ontario doctors should never have started, their lawyer says, because they were breaching “mere guidelines” related to COVID-19 and not breaking a code of professional conduct.

The doctors—Crystal Luchkiw, Patrick Phillips, and Mark Trozzi—seemed to take a blow earlier this year when a tribunal rejected their motion to halt proceedings. But lawyer Michael Alexander has latched onto part of that tribunal’s decision to come back fighting.