Medical college scolds psychiatrist for diagnosing local optician without meeting him

December 6, 2017

Ontario's medical regulator found that Toronto psychiatrist Joel Sadavoy, who wrote a critical evaluation of a Burlington optician without ever seeing or talking to him, should have had consent before sharing a diagnosis.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons wrote a letter to the psychiatrist telling him not to do it again.  

Kelly Bennett, "Medical college scolds psychiatrist for diagnosing local optician without meeting him," CBC News, 1 Dec 2017, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hakim-sadavoy-college-letter-1.4428694.