DISCIPLINE SUMMARIES
leges in Quebec on his Annual Renewals with the
College in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Prior to his 2014
Annual Renewal, Dr. Khuon had disclosed that he
was registered with the CMQ on his Annual Re-
newals in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Dr Khuon’s
failure to declare on his Annual Renewals that he was
registered with the CMQ, or had hospital privileges
in Quebec, coincided with incidents at the Gatineau
Hospital involving Dr. Khuon’s care of two adults
and two pediatric patients in the emergency depart-
ment and inquiries into those incidents by the hospi-
tal and the CMQ.
ORDER
The Discipline Committee ordered: a two-month
suspension on Dr. Khuon’s certificate of registration;
a reprimand; individualized instruction in medical
ethics; and payment to the College for hearing costs
in the amount of $6,000.
For complete details, please see the full decision at
www.cpso.on.ca. Select Find a Doctor and enter the
doctor’s name.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Dr. Khuon waived his
right to an appeal and the Committee administered the
public reprimand.
DR. ALAN HOWARD LAITY
benzodiazepines throughout their 8.5-year physician-
patient relationship, either missing or ignoring clear
warning signs that Patient A was addicted to and/or
abusing the medication he prescribed. Dr. Laity pre-
scribed Patient A a significant amount of clonazepam
after a three-month hospital admission for benzo-
diazepine abuse, contrary to the advice contained
in specialist notes he had received from the hospital
days earlier, advising Dr. Laity that Patient A had
been weaned off of all benzodiazepines.
Dr. Laity had resigned from the College in June
2017. Dr. Laity entered into an undertaking to the
College not to apply or reapply for registration in
Ontario or any other jurisdiction.
ORDER
The Committee took into account the undertaking
and ordered that Dr. Laity attend before the panel to
be reprimanded, and pay hearing costs in the amount
of $10,180.
For complete details, please see the full decision at
www.cpso.on.ca. Select Find a Doctor and enter the
doctor’s name.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Dr. Laity waived his
right to an appeal and the Committee administered the
public reprimand.
PRACTICE LOCATION: London DR. DEAN CAREY LEDUC
AREA OF PRACTICE: Family Medicine PRACTICE LOCATION: Orleans
HEARING INFORMATION: Admission; Agreed State-
ment of Facts; Joint Submission on Penalty AREA OF PRACTICE: Family Medicine
On October 15, 2018, the Discipline Committee
found that Dr. Laity engaged in professional mis-
conduct in that he failed to maintain the standard
of practice of the profession and engaged in an act
relevant to the practice of medicine that having
regard to all the circumstances would reasonably be
regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or
unprofessional.
Dr. Laity admitted to prescribing and record-keep-
ing deficiencies in his care and treatment of Patient
A. Dr. Laity prescribed Patient A escalating doses of
HEARING INFORMATION: Admission; Agreed State-
ment of Facts; Joint Submission on Penalty
On September 17, 2018, the Discipline Committee
found that Dr. Leduc committed an act of profes-
sional misconduct, in that he has failed to maintain
the standard of practice of the profession, and in that
he has engaged in an act or omission relevant to the
practice of medicine that, having regard to all the cir-
cumstances, would reasonably be regarded by mem-
bers as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.
Patient A became a patient of Dr. Leduc in the late
1990s, when she was a teenager. Between approxi-
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