If Ontario doctors reject the proposed fee deal, all the evidence suggests arbitration is going to force the same deal through – but six months later, says Dr. Sohail Gandhi.
A doctor never performed thousands of tests he billed for, according to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal, which said he even claimed drug screening on patients as young as nine and multiple pregnancy tests for a patient who wasn't sexually active.
In just two years, the number of Quebec doctors who've hung up their lab coats has doubled—a situation that could be explained by pandemic fatigue observed among these health professionals.