Warning: Graphic content follows.One fall afternoon in 2010 while Dr. Jane Gilbert was drinking with a patient at his home, she asked him if he wanted help getting an erection. It would prove to be the beginning of the end of her career in psychiatry.But not before she also had sex with Patient A, whose identity is covered by a publication ban, at her home, his cottage, her office at the Oakville hospital and a hotel room. And not before she took Patient A to a sex store, a place he had never visited before, to try on a penis ring to maintain an erection.All of this is laid out in a statement of uncontested facts filed Wednesday at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, where a discipline panel stripped Gilbert of her licence, having found she sexually abused a patient and committed professional misconduct. Gilbert, who is the owner of The Bear Clinic in Oakville, was a no-show for the hearing, having sent two lawyers in her place who entered a plea of “no contest,” meaning she consents to the discipline panel accepting the allegations as correct for the purpose of the hearing only, but was also not admitting guilt. “Rather than provide help for this vulnerable patient during his most difficult time, she initiated a personal and then sexual relationship with him to satisfy her own needs at the time,” college prosecutor Carolyn Silver told the discipline panel Wednesday. It all began in October 2009, when Patient A saw Gilbert for a psychiatric consultation at the Oakville hospital. (Gilbert resigned from the hospital clinic in 2011 to open her own clinic.) Patient A had been hospitalized for anxiety the previous month, having suffered from mental health issues following years of intense treatment for cancer, according to a statement of facts. During a September 2010 appointment with Patient A, Gilbert started to cry, telling the patient her husband was leaving her, the discipline panel was told.“Patient A did not know wh ...
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