From Toronto SUN
A Toronto doctor has been found guilty of professional misconduct and deemed “incompetent” following the death of one of her patients and botched procedures performed on others.
Dr. Behnaz Yazdanfar “failed to maintain the standard of practice” and was “unprofessional” while practising cosmetic surgery from 2005 to 2008, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario stated Wednesday following a high-profile disciplinary hearing in two years ago.
Patient Krista Stryland, 32, died following stomach-reduction surgery at Yazdanfar’s North York clinic in September 2007. During Yazdanfar’s 2009 hearing, a plastic surgeon testified that Stryland “was bleeding so profusely from multiple puncture wounds” that her heart stopped.
A paramedic who worked on Stryland testified at the hearing that Yazdanfar and her anesthesiologist, Dr. Bruce Liberman, waited too long to call 911.
It was also heard that Liberman, who was taking care of Stryland following her surgery, left the recovery room to get a snack while Stryland lay with weakening vital signs.
Liberman was also found guilty Wednesday of misconduct and “disgraceful” performance.
Also mentioned in Wednesday’s decision was former Yazdanfar patient Francine Mendelson, 66, who filed a complaint with the CPSO after learning of Stryland’s death.
Mendelson said in July 2009 that following her $7,000 liposuction at Yazdanfar’s clinic, she was bleeding so badly after returning home, her husband had to cover their bed with garbage bags.
The CPSO found that Yazdanfar failed to make “appropriate treatment decisions” and “recognize and...manage complications,” and called the online advertising for her clinic “deceptive.”
Yazdanfar has been under an order by the College not perform surgeries since the completion of her disciplinary hearing.
Yazdanfar was a family doctor after graduating from the University of Ottawa in 1994. She began focusing on cosmetic surgery in 2000.
A penalty hearing is pending.
terry.davidson@sunmedia.ca
Dr.Yazdanfar is`a GP. She has no Surgical qualifications. The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons did not react to media ads which described her as a "cosmetic surgeon".
ReplyDeletealthough there were complaints from the Medical profession.
After this case GPs will have to state that they are a "GP with focused practice in ...".