When Taissa Pavliuc got a referral to the North York Endoscopy Centre, she went, hoping she could get the treatment she needed to return to competing in triathlons.
A surgeon at the clinic, Dr. Ashwin Maharaj, had been billed online as “a leading expert in minimally invasive hemorrhoid and anorectal surgery.”
Pavliuc did not know, when she arrived at Maharaj’s clinic last spring, that he was under regulatory supervision due to troubling conduct, which Ontario’s medical watchdog says included “essentially experimenting on patients without their consent.”
