allan climan, a montreal gynecologist who said
“thank you for the good time”
to a patient immediately after performing a vaginal exam, has been suspended for four years and fined $7,500.
the woman was
about to give birth at the jewish general hospital
in april 2022.
“dr. climan’s conduct casts a shadow on the entire profession,” the collège des médecins du québec disciplinary committee said in a dec. 8 ruling.
“under the circumstances, the committee has no other alternative but to impose a temporary suspension of a significant duration.”
the council in january
found climan guilty of making an inappropriate sexual remark
(his second such offence), of failing to abide by an order to have a woman present while examining patients, and of not updating the patient’s file.
the penalty falls short of the seven-year suspension and $12,500 fine sought by the collège des médecins du québec’s investigator.
“when you treat the woman as a spectacle and you say ‘thank you for the good time’ when her vagina is exposed, what a lack of respect for the patient,” leslie azer, a lawyer representing the investigator, told a september hearing about the penalty climan should face.
she described climan as an unrepentant repeat offender “who presents no possibility of rehabilitation, period.”