At the opening of a client’s new clinic, lawyer Brooke Shekter witnessed the culmination of a physician’s resilience after breaking free from a difficult hospital situation.
Dr. Thomas Kwan disguised himself as a nurse making home virus booster visits to infect Patrick O’Hara with a flesh-eating poison because he believed the older man stood in the way of him inheriting his mother’s home some day.
The injunction granted on Saturday to the woman’s common-law partner prevents Dr. Ellen Wiebe or any other medical professional from helping end the life of the 53-year-old Alberta woman within 30 days.
Prosecutors say Dr. Thomas Kwan pretended to be a community nurse delivering booster shots and injected Patrick O’Hara with a toxic substance, likely a pesticide.
In addition to failure to maintain appropriate boundaries, Dr. Jeffrey Martin Steinberg was also found to have inappropriately withheld prescriptions for patients.
Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a track-two assisted death.
The lawsuit filed with the Court of King’s Bench in Fredericton alleges Darrell Mesheau’s death was caused by the ‘reckless and outrageous acts and omissions’ of Horizon Health Network and its staff.
