Yazdanfar surrenders license

December 21, 2011 - Toronto - Behnaz Yazdanfar has finally been stripped of her medical license in Ontario, Canada. Unfortunately, the CPSO has given her another chance after the two-year suspension. The recent press coverage has been enormous. Nearly every major newspaper and media outlet has carried the story. Their web site for the TCC has still not published the story as requested by the CPSO.

Michele Mandel's column in Toronto SUN - December 21, 2011

Doc in lipo death gets off lightly

TORONTO - A little boy left without his mother sends balloons to heaven with notes hoping she’s okay. And the unqualified cosmetic surgeon who cost his mom her life? Dr. Behnaz Yazdanfar has just been suspended for two years and banned from ever operating alone again.

But she can apply to be reinstated after a year and when she does get her licence back, she can still be a surgical assistant. It hardly seems punishment enough. Ensuring she never practises again was the penalty advocated by the lawyer for the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

It was also the sentence sought by the little boy’s father and the rest of the family of his late mom, Krista Stryland. “When (my son) grows up,” the dad wrote in his victim impact statement, “I want to be able to look him in the eye, explain to him what happened and let him know that although this was a terrible, tragic loss, the system did not fail him in how it dealt with these doctors.” He hoped for too much.

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The TCCLINIC.COM web site makes no mention of Yazdanfar unless you looked at the cached archives or some of the old pictures.

If you use the Google search term "site:tcclinic.com yazdanfar" and go to the cached version you can still see the original ads in Elevate Magazine where she claims to be a cosmetic surgeon.

There are two certified plastic surgeons who are listed on their web site. The CPSO had demanded that Yazdanfar's story be placed on their web site. So far this has not happened.

Yazdanfar, the original "owner" of the clinic, could still be the owner of the clinic. IF she is, then she can still be operating the clinic without actually having a medical license. I don't believe that the CPSO has the power to stop her. We also do not know if her husband has any interest in the company. Were the assets sold-off to the new doctors?

The TCC is still advertising as if nothing ever happened there. The same device used in the deadly tragedy involving Ms. Stryland is still on their procedures or services pages. They are still doing breast implants and other surgical interventions.

Did the Ministry of Health actually approve the clinic?

Does the CPSO intend to inspect the clinic in the future?

Stay tuned for further developments.

BTW - There is still a civil lawsuit against Yazdanfar and the clinic.