In addition to failure to maintain appropriate boundaries, Dr. Jeffrey Martin Steinberg was also found to have inappropriately withheld prescriptions for patients.
Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a track-two assisted death.
British Columbia politicians are celebrating connecting more people with family doctors, but it comes as emergency room physicians at Surrey Memorial Hospital say conditions there continue to crumble.
The deluge of paperwork that is wearing down doctors only seems to be getting worse. Doctors of BC past-president Dr. Joshua Greggain estimates it is 20% to 25% of what family doctors do.
