CBC Manitoba: Plastic surgeon’s 6-week suspension for professional misconduct ‘slap on the wrist’: former patient

While Ziesmann’s case points to a number of serious medical mistakes, Arthur Schafer, a professor at the University of Manitoba specializing in bioethics, said it is hard for outside parties to determine whether the college’s judgment on a doctor was strong enough. 

College panels review a great deal of evidence to determine disciplinary action, some of which is not publicly released, so it can be difficult to know how they came to a decision, said Schafer.

In this case, he thinks the college did take steps to safeguard the public, referencing both interim conditions Ziesmann was under before the college’s March decision — including that he be monitored during surgeries while the college investigated — and the final decision to temporarily suspend him.

“That’s pretty rigorous,” Schafer said. “He will be more carefully monitored than maybe any other physician in the province.”

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