2024-02-12 05:00:00
The court has just taken drastic measures to ensure that a former dentist from Terrebonne, who continued to see clients despite court orders, ceases to practice forever: she will have to hand over all her dental instruments, even chairs for patients.
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“This situation must stop,” Judge Éric Dufour recently said at the Joliette courthouse, ordering Josée Gaudet to stop practicing dentistry.
The one who had been a dentist in Terrebonne for around thirty years has no longer been able to practice since December 2022 because she had notably obstructed the work of investigators from her professional order.
Since then, however, she has continued to see patients in her clinic. The Order of Dentists of Quebec (ODQ) has applied to the Superior Court on several occasions to obtain injunctions prohibiting it from practicing dentistry. In one case, the court even sentenced her to a few days in prison.
Gaudet said in court that she felt like “a condemned person on death row in the United States.”
The Superior Court ultimately issued a permanent injunction once morest Gaudet, banning her for life from practicing dentistry or holding herself out as a dentist.
“We must face the facts: Gaudet has no intention of stopping his illegalities and the public risks a lot when they consult it without any insurance possibly compensating them. […] The court cannot tolerate such a risk,” explained Judge Dufour.
This is why he ordered that Josée Gaudet hand over all her instruments, including the chairs to treat patients, regardless of where they are.
“These conclusions turn out to be unusual, yet necessary,” said the magistrate.
In the past, the court had already ordered him to hand over his tools. However, this had only been a “swipe in the wind” because she had been able to obtain new ones, according to the ODQ.
A “for rent” poster was visible on the facade of the Josée Gaudet Dental Clinic, in Terrebonne, on Sunday. Photo Camille Payant
Heavy case
Josée Gaudet’s case represented an enormous workload for the ODQ. It symbolized approximately 30 hours of work per week, according to estimates presented to the court.
The Order’s trustee, Dr. Mario Mailhot, alone had to devote the equivalent of one day per week to Gaudet.
In 20 months, Gaudet sent more than 160 emails to the officers and employees of the Order. In some, it was possible to read that the ODQ was a “phony, false, mean and jealous” institution or that Dr. Mailhot was “sadistic and despotic”.
She also sent around a hundred requests for access to information and even went to the Order’s offices, hoping to get her hands on the files that had been confiscated from her.
Judge Dufour therefore ordered him to refrain from going to the Order’s offices and from communicating with all of its staff.
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