'The only reason she did it was greed,' the crown prosecutor argued at Dr. Yifei Shi's sentencing hearing. 'We trust doctors with our lives. We should be able to trust them with our money.'
Dr. Gustavo Jose Carvalho was also suspended multiple times by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia and subjected to practice conditions that he breached repeatedly.
Madeline has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS, for more than 30 years after contracting mononucleosis twice in her younger years.
Dana Cooper, the executive director of the Nurse Practitioners' Association of Ontario, is urging Premier Doug Ford's government to take better advantage those skills as people struggle to get access to primary care.