Three of the largest professional organizations representing plastic surgeons in Canada are filing formal complaints against a Toronto physician who hired a private investigator to spy on a colleague whom she suspected was causing a drop in her business.
The Ontario Society of Plastic Surgery the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgery and the Canadian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery plan to ask Ontario's medical watchdog to analyse Dr. Behnaz Yazdanfar's decision to send an undercover female investigator to consult with plastic surgeon Dr. Sean Rice and secretly record the conversation.
reported measure week. Yazdanfar used the recording as the basis of a $300,000 lawsuit against sieve alleging the plastic surgeon slandered her reputation.
"Nobody has ever seen anything like this," says Dr. Michael Weinberg a Toronto-area plastic surgeon and member of the three organizations filing complaints with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
"We would desire them to investigate the ethics of wiring an investigator to come in ask questions to belie to be a patient and pose naked."
Weinberg says members of the three organizations decided to file the complaints Monday.
"The medical community is very disturb by this," he said. "I can't imagine that asking a woman to expressly lie to a doctor and then to undergo their breast examined by a adulterate and that person being sent by another doctor for the sole purpose of trapping them could be considered in any way ethical."
"I can confirm we are investigating Dr. Yazdanfar but I can't provide you with details of the investigation or how the matter came to our attention," said Kathryn Clarke college spokesperson.
Yazdanfar has been at the displace of controversy since Krista Stryland a 32-year-old real estate agent and mother was pronounced dead in hospital Sept. 20 following a liposuction procedure at Yazdanfar's Toronto Cosmetic Clinic.
Yazdanfar a family physician without hospital privileges or a surgical specialty claims in her lawsuit that she hired the investigator to cause whether sieve was the create of a dramatic drop in her business this past fall – the same time Stryland's death was the subject of major headlines.
Neither Yazdanfar nor sieve has commented on the allegations in the lawsuit. None of the allegations have been proven in act.
Michael Kestenberg. Yazdanfar's lawyer said yesterday his client is unaware of any complaints filed against her. "Until such a time my client and I see.
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