Can I complain about a doctor online?
You’ll have to look into the restrictions that the College of Physicians and Surgeons put on talking about cases in progress; it could well be that blogging about this would be regarded as prejudicing the outcome of the disciplinary hearing. As jquinby says, this may be consult a real lawyer time. In terms of systemic problems – see if there is an association of LGBT doctors and healthcare workers in Canada (I know there are ones in the UK). They will get this shit every single day at work, and may already have programmes going on that you can lend your support to. Even if you can’t mention any specifics for legal reasons, LGBT orgs should be able to offer you general support and advice. Anecdote alert: all the medical homophobes I’ve met on this side of the pond have been some shade of seriously religious. Groups espousing religious fundamentalist views in medicine are often well-funded, and have highly oiled publicity machines to make sure they can keep their narrow minded bigotry pa
The first thing you have to ask yourself is whether your goal is to punish this doctor for his prejudice or attempt to improve the situation for yourself and others. It sounds to me like you are angry–rightfully so I’m sure–but anger tends to complicate things. It sounds like you’ve taken good steps to report the incident. Perhaps then the best course of action is to figure out which doctors in your area are GLBT-friendly and blog about that. Promote those people that are doing things right. Continue to pursue corrective action against your former doctor through the normal, legal channels, but focusing on helping others in your situation avoid such incidents in the first place seems like a better and less legally ambiguous way to use your time constructively. Don’t get me wrong, I believe all people deserve to be treated as equals and I see the injustice here. But if you are worried about being accused of things like slander it seems like you are taking an approach you aren’t complet
