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Windsor doctor has licence to practice revoked

The oversight agency for Ontario doctors has revoked the licence of a Windsor doctor following a pattern of misconduct.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) announced last week that it had revoked the credentials of Dr. Paul Russell Hanson, who had worked as a general practitioner since 1992 in Windsor and Chatham.

According to a 56-page report obtained by Blackburn News, the College's Discipline Committee has ordered Hanson to surrender his licence immediately. He must also appear before the committee for a reprimand and pay a sum of $10,370 within 90 days of the decision's publication.

The Discipline Committee held a hearing in February 2020, after which Hanson was found guilty of professional misconduct by failing to maintain the standards of the profession.

"[Hanson] has engaged in conduct or an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional, and in that he has been found guilty of an offence that is relevant to his suitability to practice," read the report.

This was not the first time Hanson had found himself in trouble with regulators, with entries on his record dating back to 2001, when he falsified a patient's records and failed to provide proper care to a patient when he took them off the drug Coumadin. The patient later suffered a stroke and died.

In 2004, Hanson was treated for substance dependency and voluntarily entered an undertaking to relinquish his prescription privileges. Five years later, he entered another one, this time to stop performing surgical or cosmetic procedures or prescribe narcotics.

In 2010, Hanson was charged with one count of fraud over $5000. He was accused of improperly billing OHIP and the Ontario Ministry of Health for services not performed, with police involved in the investigation. The charge was later dropped after Hanson pleaded guilty to improperly maintaining medical records and paid $10,000.

Sporadic complaints about patient care and bedside manner continued against Hanson through the Discipline Committee hearing last winter.

The complete report can be found on the CPSO's website.

Hanson's practice was located at the Jackson Park Medical Centre in Windsor. Blackburn News placed a call Wednesday afternoon to his office, which was answered by a recording asking callers not to leave a message.

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