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By Margaret Brand The Review-Mirror Patients of Dr. Ian Shiozaki will be seeing other physicians at his Newboro clinic while he serves a six-month sus- pension imposed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons, beginning Jan. 31. Dr. Elaine Riddick and Dr. Sharon Grainger will be working three days a week at his office. The College stepped in when Shiozaki's pain management programs with his patients went beyond what has now been established as stan- dard practice – less pain medication. Last April the College imposed restrictions in Shiozaki's prescribing of Narcotic drugs, Controlled Drugs and Benzodi- azepines and other Target- ed Substances. "I do a lot of chronic pain. A lot of the people that come to me weren't successfully treated by other doctors," said Shiozaki in an interview with The Review-Mirror. "I chose to treat them the way we've always treated them and the Col- lege didn't like that," he said. Patients have submitted dramatic stories of how their lives have turned around. "The College took a look at 25 patients. Half of them were bedridden when I got them. I got them all out of bed. The College doesn't care about that. They have guidelines which are guidelines," said Shiozaki who had other observations about the 25 patients. "One third of the patients lost between 45 and 122 lbs. Most had been under the care of a pain specialist but had failed to improve. Some went on to an improved quality of life that they deserved. One out of five tapered their medications as their life improved. Almost half went from being bedridden to work- ing or looking for work. For some life was not worthwhile or worse," he said. A disciplinary hearing by the college is scheduled for Jan. 31-Feb. 2 and Feb 8-9, 2018. "They wanted to take my license away. The community wrote a lot of letters," said Shiozaki, who also got permission from some of his patients to distribute written testi- monies on the changes they have been able to accomplish under his care. He recognizes his fate is in the College's hands. "They make an initial report. It gets ratified at a committee. You defend yourself at a committee or they can make an agree- ment. There is no hard and fast rule but I could be back next July," he said. Thursday, December 14, 2017 Serving North Leeds and area since 1893 Vol. 126, No.49 $1 incl. tax The United Counties will be providing addition- al support to Westport's social housing facility, Mountain View Manor with the addition of a new part-time case manager. The new position will also include working with the communities in two other social housing facili- ties in Cardinal and Brockville where issues have been identified. Tenants have felt unsafe in their buildings because of the behaviour of other tenants, issues which have been difficult to resolve without threat- ening the tenancy of either party. The first step of the new strategy will be to bring community partners including housing staff, police, mental health and addiction support, victim services providers, com- munity health program staff and the mayor of each municipality. The inspiration for the initiative is from a model in Brockville where as a community policing initia- tive a 'hub' of services and programs was created in a social housing complex which has engaged the res- idents as a community. The initiative was dis- cussed at County Council last week where some pre- ferred going with a hard line instead, and start evicting problem tenants, something, as it turns out, is virtually impossible. "The Housing Depart- ment operates on the premise that the threat of eviction will have a posi- tive effect on a tenant's behavior however this is not always the case. If the unwelcome behavior or actions continue, then the matter is escalated to a Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) hearing," wrote housing department County currently has six case workers for 967 units United Counties hopes additional caseworker, outreach will help solve social housing woes u sh Get your Don't go viral. eet (613) 273-2922 h Str c 3 Chur .A. estport Village I.D W ca ot. al.ca vir dontgo Mirror The Review Patients go to bat for doctor facing minimum six-month suspension Canada Post Contract No. 40021501 This Saturday night is the last for Lower Beverley Lake Park's Celebrate the Season for 2017. Last Saturday the park, with its first dusting of snow for 2017 had a record number of visitors walking or visiting the park on one of 37 wagon trips to the park. 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