Ontario regulator clears former emergency room doctor of gender discrimination and improper billing, for the second time

Ontario’s regulator of medical doctors has, for the second time, cleared a former high-profile emergency room physician for alleged gender discrimination and improper billing. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario was forced to conduct the probe after a panel of judges deemed its first investigation inadequate.In its most recent decision, the college said that, although it is concerned about a pattern of Dr. Marko Duic hiring almost exclusively male doctors in emergency rooms where he had served as chief, the regulator cannot conclude he intentionally engaged in gender discrimination, according to Danny Kastner, a lawyer for eight complainants.