Following up on a previously reported breach from June, 2013, Cindy E. Harnett reports:
The College of Physicians and Surgeons has disciplined a Victoria urologist for photographing an unconscious patient in 2013 for the purpose of ridicule, suspending his privileges for up to six months and issuing a $20,000 fine.
Dr. John Francis Joseph David Kinahan of Victoria has admitted to engaging in unprofessional conduct by taking a photograph on his personal cellular phone of an unconscious patient’s urinary catheter site without the patient’s consent, said the college on Wednesday.
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