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Doctor could lose licence for sexual relationship with patient

A Tecumseh doctor should find out at the end of this month if he will remain a doctor.

Dr. Haider Hasnain has a penalty hearing August 26 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) to find out if he will have his licence revoked.

In January, Hasnain was found guilty of sexually abusing a patient and had his licence suspended.

The CPSO found that Dr. Hasnain "committed an act of professional misconduct when he engaged in the sexual abuse of a patient and that he has engaged in conduct that would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional."

The CPSO discovered that sometime in May of 2009, Dr. Hasnain and a patient in her 50s started a consensual sexual relationship that continued to either December of 2009 or January of 2010 and included approximately eight to 10 meetings for mutual oral sex and one occasion of sexual intercourse, as well as other sexual activity, including mutual sexual touching. The college said all of the sexual interactions occurred in one room in the clinic, except one encounter that occurred elsewhere in the clinic. The final sexual encounter was the sexual intercourse that took place either in late December of 2009 or early January of 2010.

The patient started videotaping all of her encounters with Dr. Hasnain on June 5, 2009 without his knowledge. The college added a physician-patient relationship between them began on February 6, 2009 and continued until at least September 4, 2009.

The 54-year-old physician practiced at the Tecumseh Medical Centre.

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