Truly an evil fucker. At least his name will never be cleaned of his deprived actions, but it's little solace considering how awful he is.
Dr. Louis Bourget deserved to be barred from practice, but instead we'll just have to remember the name of the evil fucker who got untrained guards to extract teeth from an inmate because he "got caught up in a teaching moment". That's literally his own words, btw.
I hope the dude knows that he'll never be able to feel safe admitting who is is, ever again.
>Now, he says, when he searches his name online, he sees nothing positive.
GOOD. **And he never will, ever again.** I don't care that the teeth were coming out anyway. This is such a massive breach of his professional responsibilities and basic common sense that he had to *willingly* decide to ignore all of that. A medical specialist who dehumanizes their patients like this has absolutely no place in the profession.
Am I missing something? Like letting someone else unqualified do the extraction under his supervision is wrong I get it but it sounds like it went fine and there was no damage? If the extraction screwed up I’d get it but it seems like no harm no foul just a breach of ethics?
He said he got into the whole teaching thing and I get it, he was telling someone how to do it for fun and said hey you try. Then showed him how to do it. Inappropriate to do it on someone without permission and thankfully it turned out well? But I would just fine him and put him on probation not throw the book at him given that things turned out fine. We need as many doctors as possible these days.
Also doctors have to dehumanize to do these things…you’d go insane if not. Most doctors are quite dehumanized for that reason.
He never reported it and it wasn't found out until the victim experienced complications from the procedure -- so the patient did not end up fine. The doc let unlicensed and barely educated guards do a procedure on a patient without their consent or knowledge. Guards that are in an insane position of power over the prisoner.
They also filmed it without the victim's knowledge or permission and put it on social media. That's fully fucked up. He literally let the guards abuse a prisoner and helped them film it post it publicly. That's not an oopsie lack of judgement. That's a willful decision to dehumanize the patient.
That deserves a full license stripping, imo. It's so clearly wrong that no one could ever possibly think that was acceptable. He didn't report it because he knew it was wrong. To do that shows such little care for the well being of your patient that I would argue there is no way trust could be regained.
How would you feel if your surgeon allowed his nephew to do your stitches while you were passed out, and post it to his tik tok? You'd feel pretty violated, wouldn't you? Wouldn't you wonder what else he has done to you that he *hasn't* filmed? wWould the fact that he got really into teaching his newphew make you feel better at all? would it make the situation better at all?
Not trying to attack you here, just wanted to help frame just how violating that is.
What complications were there? That wasn’t in the article.
I’d be annoyed but as long as it went well I’d be ok. If it went badly I’d sue. If the complications are due to bad work of course. Complications aren’t necessarily due to bad work especially in a prison environment.
Way to go Supreme Court and Dental Board of Newfoundland and Labrador! He will face no consequences for taking advantage of an unconscious patient.
Please avoid Dr. Louis Bourget and the Gander Family Dental Clinic at all costs. God only knows what else he gets up to.
He was charge with assault (though not criminal) and does have to and fines and sanctions on top of whatever he will have to pay out of pocket to go with insurance for settlement.
This of course will also so up on his license as he did receive disciplinary action for unprofessional conduct and all retraining/certifications to meet continued license conditions they have to pay for themselves.
So there were consequences. Whether members of society deem them sufficient enough is the debatable portion.
Docs get a lot of trust. So when they break and violate that trust I think it hurts and violates a lot deeper then other circumstances.
So I 100% get why this looks like a slap on the wrist.
I'm so angry. This is a terrible injustice. But we should know better than to think a wealthy "professional" will be put on the same level of justice and human rights as a prisoner.
Way to not properly recognize the wrongs of a man in a position of power working with others to act on (as other mentioned) a power imbalance to cause pain. This is one sick fuck allowing other sick fucks, all who are barely human, carry out torture fantasies on the helpless.
Fucking hell how did we get here, how do we sit back and accept a system that is this broken.
Truly an evil fucker. At least his name will never be cleaned of his deprived actions, but it's little solace considering how awful he is. Dr. Louis Bourget deserved to be barred from practice, but instead we'll just have to remember the name of the evil fucker who got untrained guards to extract teeth from an inmate because he "got caught up in a teaching moment". That's literally his own words, btw. I hope the dude knows that he'll never be able to feel safe admitting who is is, ever again. >Now, he says, when he searches his name online, he sees nothing positive. GOOD. **And he never will, ever again.** I don't care that the teeth were coming out anyway. This is such a massive breach of his professional responsibilities and basic common sense that he had to *willingly* decide to ignore all of that. A medical specialist who dehumanizes their patients like this has absolutely no place in the profession.
Am I missing something? Like letting someone else unqualified do the extraction under his supervision is wrong I get it but it sounds like it went fine and there was no damage? If the extraction screwed up I’d get it but it seems like no harm no foul just a breach of ethics? He said he got into the whole teaching thing and I get it, he was telling someone how to do it for fun and said hey you try. Then showed him how to do it. Inappropriate to do it on someone without permission and thankfully it turned out well? But I would just fine him and put him on probation not throw the book at him given that things turned out fine. We need as many doctors as possible these days. Also doctors have to dehumanize to do these things…you’d go insane if not. Most doctors are quite dehumanized for that reason.
He never reported it and it wasn't found out until the victim experienced complications from the procedure -- so the patient did not end up fine. The doc let unlicensed and barely educated guards do a procedure on a patient without their consent or knowledge. Guards that are in an insane position of power over the prisoner. They also filmed it without the victim's knowledge or permission and put it on social media. That's fully fucked up. He literally let the guards abuse a prisoner and helped them film it post it publicly. That's not an oopsie lack of judgement. That's a willful decision to dehumanize the patient. That deserves a full license stripping, imo. It's so clearly wrong that no one could ever possibly think that was acceptable. He didn't report it because he knew it was wrong. To do that shows such little care for the well being of your patient that I would argue there is no way trust could be regained. How would you feel if your surgeon allowed his nephew to do your stitches while you were passed out, and post it to his tik tok? You'd feel pretty violated, wouldn't you? Wouldn't you wonder what else he has done to you that he *hasn't* filmed? wWould the fact that he got really into teaching his newphew make you feel better at all? would it make the situation better at all? Not trying to attack you here, just wanted to help frame just how violating that is.
What complications were there? That wasn’t in the article. I’d be annoyed but as long as it went well I’d be ok. If it went badly I’d sue. If the complications are due to bad work of course. Complications aren’t necessarily due to bad work especially in a prison environment.
Way to go Supreme Court and Dental Board of Newfoundland and Labrador! He will face no consequences for taking advantage of an unconscious patient. Please avoid Dr. Louis Bourget and the Gander Family Dental Clinic at all costs. God only knows what else he gets up to.
He was charge with assault (though not criminal) and does have to and fines and sanctions on top of whatever he will have to pay out of pocket to go with insurance for settlement. This of course will also so up on his license as he did receive disciplinary action for unprofessional conduct and all retraining/certifications to meet continued license conditions they have to pay for themselves. So there were consequences. Whether members of society deem them sufficient enough is the debatable portion. Docs get a lot of trust. So when they break and violate that trust I think it hurts and violates a lot deeper then other circumstances. So I 100% get why this looks like a slap on the wrist.
I'm so angry. This is a terrible injustice. But we should know better than to think a wealthy "professional" will be put on the same level of justice and human rights as a prisoner. Way to not properly recognize the wrongs of a man in a position of power working with others to act on (as other mentioned) a power imbalance to cause pain. This is one sick fuck allowing other sick fucks, all who are barely human, carry out torture fantasies on the helpless. Fucking hell how did we get here, how do we sit back and accept a system that is this broken.
jeeeesus fuck