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CBC Manitoba: Surgeon accused of sexual harassment banned from working at Grace Hospital

January 30, 2025 — 

While Steel maintained that suspension is a harsh punishment for Ames, an ethics professor at the University of Manitoba says reducing the ban to just the Grace Hospital seemingly fails to acknowledge the seriousness of Ames’s pattern of misconduct.

“The behaviour of which he’s been convicted of in 2022, and the behaviour of which he’s now been accused — by a colleague rather than a patient — undermines a critically important requirement for medicine to be able to operate effectively on behalf of the patient’s health,” said  Dr. Arthur Schafer.

Schafer says Ames’s behaviour is “wildly inappropriate,” calling the quiet ban on Ames’s hospital privileges, and its subsequent reduction, “questionable.”

He says the medical profession has no room for repeated misbehaviour, and he wants to know if the matter is being handled by the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba.

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