Complaints Against Health Professionals Don't Just Come from Patients

While the majority of complaints considered by the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committees of health professionals' Colleges are brought by patients disappointed with the care and treatment they received from their health care provider, patients are not the only people who submit complaints. Health professionals can also be subject to complaints from  colleagues and competitors, as described in this article, or even from people they have never met! This was the case when a Toronto doctor who performs religious circumcisions was the subject of a complaint from the executive director of the advocacy group Doctors Opposing Circumcision, as descibed in a National Post article.