'I felt dirty, almost as if I'd been raped,' one victim said of the actions of Ottawa doctor Bernard Norman Barwin.
A Canadian fertility doctor devastated the lives of families when they found out he had used the wrong sperm, including his own, to impregnate patients without telling them, a medical regulator has heard.the actions of Bernard Norman BarwinSome patients found out their children were only half-siblings even though they insisted the same donor be used for both.
Rebecca Dixon told the discipline committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario about her shock at finding out three years ago that Barwin was her biological father and not the man who had raised her."There is never any going back from this, it's changed my life forever.
"I still felt so violated, I felt dirty, almost as if I'd been raped," she told the committee. Meanwhile, an unnamed man said in a written statement how devastated he was to find out his daughter was biologically Barwin's child. Lawyer representing the families, Carolyn Silver, told the disciplinary committee:"There is no precedent for the case you have before you.
UPDATE: A discipline committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has revoked Bernard Norman Barwin's medical licence effective immediately and ordered him to pay a fine of $10,730 within 30 days.
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