Summerside psychiatrist to face professional misconduct hearing in late March
A Summerside psychiatrist shall be going through an expert misconduct listening to subsequent month.
The School of Physicians and Surgeons of P.E.I. shall be contemplating allegations made in opposition to Dr. Arvind Singh at a sequence of hearings set to start March 23 in Charlottetown.
The allegations made in opposition to Singh contain an unidentified affected person who was below the psychiatrist’s care between 2017 and 2018, in accordance with a discover of listening to issued by the faculty late final 12 months.
The discover of listening to doesn’t embody any indication of what proof shall be launched to help the allegations.
Singh’s lawyer, Tom Laughlin, instructed CBC Information that his shopper denies the allegations and plans to problem them on the upcoming listening to.
Six allegations have been outlined:
- Failure to take care of accepted skilled requirements, together with failing to contemplate the affected person’s well-being, extra opinions indicated for them, and co-operating with their household within the affected person’s curiosity.
- Prescribing medication or therapies in a way “not in keeping with usually accepted skilled requirements and procedures,” by his use of behaviour modification remedy and restrictive behavioural protocol.
- Engaged in conduct that may moderately be considered “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” in his interactions with the affected person, their household and medical employees at Prince County Hospital.
- Abusing a affected person verbally or bodily.
- Offering a medical service with out consent, and failing to acquire knowledgeable medical consent via the affected person’s guardian earlier than altering their treatment.
- Demonstrating an absence of “data, talent and judgment” in his medical remedy of the affected person.
No one from the School of Physicians and Surgeons was accessible for an interview Monday.
The listening to was initially scheduled for final month, however was postponed as a result of COVID-19 guidelines on giant gatherings.
If the listening to committee trying into the case finds that Singh dedicated acts {of professional} misconduct or is an unfit member, he may very well be topic to penalties as set out within the Regulated Well being Professions Act, together with the suspension of his registration.
In 2020, Singh was fined $215,539 after he pleaded responsible to expenses of private and company tax evasion.
He additionally needed to pay one other $215,539 in taxes owing, plus curiosity and penalties assessed by the Canada Income Company.
The listening to is scheduled to start out March 23 and is predicted to final 10 days.
