A Windsor-area family doctor has had his licence suspended for professional misconduct for making inappropriate remarks to a nurse, berating another nurse in front of patients and threatening a physician.
At a disciplinary hearing earlier this month, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario suspended Dr. Robert Stewart Cameron for professional misconduct for three months starting February 1, 2013.
According to the college’s findings, Cameron, between 2008 and 2010, made inappropriate remarks of a “sexual nature … including stories of sexual interactions with his girlfriend” towards a registered practical nurse who worked in the same medical practice. In one incident, Cameron put his arm around the RPN’s hip with his hand resting on her left buttock. She reported the incident to the police.
Between 2009 and 2010, Cameron also made inappropriate remarks towards another RPN on the staff and spoke disparagingly of her to the father of a young patient. In early 2010, the hearing report states, the doctor raised his voice at her in an “irate fashion” when patients were present.
The doctor also made a threat towards a colleague described as the “chief of staff” at a hospital, the report states. The same nurse who reported the inappropriate touching is described by the college as having told the other physician and the police that Cameron stated “he would like to meet (the chief of staff) in a dark alley with a baseball bat.”
Along with the licence suspension, Cameron has been ordered to complete a course in “boundary issues and communications” approved by the college at his expense. He was also ordered to pay the college $3,650.
Cameron has had his licence suspended once before, for one month in 2011 for professional misconduct after he failed to treat a two-year-old patient who was suffering from a severe allergic reaction.
