DISCIPLINE SUMMARIES
THE EXPERT REPORT
An expert was retained by the College to provide an
opinion about the care Dr. Doyle provided to Patient
A as well as the care Dr. Doyle provided to 24 pa-
tients treated by Dr. Doyle in his private practice.
The expert identified wide ranging deficiencies
including:
• Inadequate documentation/record-keeping;
• Lack of diagnostic clarity/consistency;
• Inadequate risk assessments and/or interventions
for self-harm and aggressive ideation;
• Lack of attention to substance use history and/or
inadequate assessment of alcohol/substance use;
• Use of non-professional and/or non-objective lan-
guage in clinical notes;
• Inadequate psychotropic medication intervention
and/or sub-therapeutic medication dosing;
• Failure to make mandatory report to MOT and/or
CAS;
• Inadequate follow-up/frequency of monitoring/ap-
pointments;
• Inappropriate prescribing of stimulant medication;
• Inappropriate prescribing of a narcotic;
• Inappropriate prescribing of medical marijuana in
patient with primary psychotic illness;
• Ongoing prescribing of a medication (stimulants,
benzodiazepines) that patient is known to be abusing;
• Inadequate medication monitoring (efficacy, side
effects, interactions, blood work);
• Failure to maintain appropriate/professional
boundaries;
• Inappropriate polypharmacy and/or combinations
of benzodiazepines, atypical antipsychotics and/or
sedative hypnotics; and
• Inappropriate prescribing of medications for non-
psychiatric conditions and without notifying the
patient's primary care provider.
The expert opined that Dr. Doyle exposed or is
likely to expose Patient A as well as 19 of the 24
patients to harm or injury.
Dr. Doyle posted a series of YouTube videos. The
expert reviewed the videos and described concerns
about 23 of the 29 videos, including lack of judg-
ment, professionalism and boundaries.
In January of 2017, Dr. Doyle engaged in unpro-
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fessional communications with a medical adjudica-
tor in the Canada Student Loans Program. He used
profanities in his conversation with the adjudicator,
explaining afterwards that he thought that she was a
patient who was calling him non-stop.
In 2009, the Discipline Committee made a finding
of professional misconduct against Dr. Doyle following
his admission to having engaged in disgraceful, dis-
honourable or unprofessional conduct. Specifically, Dr.
Doyle was found to have failed to maintain appropriate
boundaries, in that he commenced a romantic relation-
ship with a patient shortly after the termination of the
doctor/patient relationship and made serious errors in
failing to maintain appropriate boundaries with the
patient during the last three months of treatment.
ORDER
The Committee ordered: revocation of Dr. Doyle’s
certificate of registration; a reprimand; and payment
to the College for costs in the amount of $16,500.
For complete details, please see the full decision at
www.cpso.on.ca. Select Find a Doctor and enter the
doctor’s name.
APPEAL
On September 6, 2018, Dr. Doyle appealed the
Discipline Committee’s decision on penalty and
costs to the Divisional Court of the Superior Court
of Justice. Pursuant to s.71 of the Health Professions
Procedural Code, the Discipline Committee’s penalty
decision remains in effect despite the appeal.
DR. TROY CHRISTIE DRONE
PRACTICE LOCATION: Kitchener
AREA OF PRACTICE: Anesthesiology
HEARING INFORMATION: Admission; Agreed Statement of
Facts; Joint Submission on Penalty
On June 25, 2018, the Discipline Committee found
that Dr. Drone committed an act of professional
misconduct, in that he engaged in an act or omis-
sion relevant to the practice of medicine that, having
regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be