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Ca: Halifax doctor reprimanded for snooping in case files of injured workers

Posted on December 19, 2015 by Dissent

Claire Mellor reports:

The regulatory body for physicians in Nova Scotia has reprimanded a Halifax physician for inappropriately accessing injured workers’ charts at the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia.

A College of Physicians & Surgeons of Nova Scotia decision released Thursday said Dr. Donald Haigh consented to a reprimand for breaching expected standards of practice “in a manner that constitutes professional misconduct.”

Read more on The Chronicle Herald.

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