Toronto area docor loses licence for performing unnecesary hysterectomies

March 14, 2004

Hi. I'm posting this link to an article from the Toronto SUN newspaper.

There are more detailed articles in March 13 Toronto Star and The National

Post but I couldn't find the links.

A Toronto area gyn's licence was revoked for incompetence last week by the

Ontario College of Physcians and Surgeons. He's been under investigation for

some time. One of the key reasons for the action by the College was its

finding that the doctor had pressured patients into unnecesary

hysterectomies, and other unnecessary procedures and had botched the

procedures he subjected his patients to. The College based its decision on

the case histories of 47 of the doctor's former patients.

In addition, 350 women are involved in a class action lawsuit against the

doctor and the hospital where he practised. There is a website for the class

action which can be accessed by keying in the doctor's name - Wai-Ping.

The worst part about this is that this guy has been practising since 1992,

and there were complaints about him as early as 1995. It's so sad reading

the victim impact statements. He is reported to have done hysterecomies on

women in their 20s and mislead others by telling them they would die without

having hysterectomies.

Despite all this, his lawyer was arguing aginst the impostion of the

revocation of his licence on ground it was a " professional death sentence "

and can apparently re-apply for his licence in a year.

Jill M

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