Mon Mar 27, 2023 – 10:25 pm EDT
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – Hundreds of an Ontario physician’s patients are taking to court the province’s medical regulator for what their lawyer describes as an “unprecedented attack” on the “privacy” of the doctor-patient relationship after the regulator demanded the doctor release medical records to them or face discipline because she gave out COVID mask exemptions.
In a press conference held today in Toronto, the patients’ lawyer, Rocco Galati, said the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) is “attacking the sanctity and privacy of the doctor-patient relationship and the right to privacy of personal and health information in Canada.”
“Medical regulatory overreach must be subject to judicial scrutiny by the Courts. The Rule of Law requires it,” Galati noted.
The case is being spearheaded by the Privacy is Your Right group with Galati as its legal counsel. The group says that its case is about “who has control of our medical and personal information, who it’s available to, and for what purpose(s).”
The case involves a demand against an Ontario doctor by the CPSO for what the plaintiffs say is an “unlawful investigation against their family doctor and
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