Kevin Ma reports:
An emergency room doctor from St. Albert has been suspended for at least a month because she illegally tapped into restricted medical files.
The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta announced this week that it had found Deanne “Dee” Gayle Watrich, an emergency room doctor and a St. Albert resident, to be guilty of unprofessional conduct.
Watrich had previously admitted to unprofessional conduct at a hearing tribunal held by the college last November.
Specifically, the tribunal wrote in its ruling, Watrich accessed the electronic health records of three people 21 times between Aug. 5, 2009, and May 2, 2010, without having a patient/physician relationship with those people.
Read more on the St. Albert Gazette. You can read the press release on the ruling here.