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Judge orders Toronto plastic surgeon to pay $21M to former patients after installing 24 cameras around clinic
The judge said 24 hidden cameras violated patient privacy and awarded $5,000 each to surgical patients and $500 to others.
- An Ontario Superior Court judge ordered Toronto plastic surgeon Dr. Martin Jugenburg to pay $22.5 million to 7,000 patients on Tuesday, finding he filmed them without consent between January 1, 2017 and December 13, 2018.
- Twenty-Four surveillance cameras were placed in consultation, injection, and operating rooms, with only an obscured sign alerting patients before a CBC investigation exposed the practice in December 2018.
- Justice Paul Schabas dismissed the doctor's "disingenuous after-the-fact attempts" to excuse his conduct, awarding $5,000 per surgical patient and $500 per non-surgical appointment.
- In 2021, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario suspended Jugenburg for six months for filming a surgical procedure without consent, then issued a 2023 caution permitting him to continue practising.
- Lawyer Josh Nisker questioned the college's oversight effectiveness, while CPSO spokesperson Laura Zilke maintained that the regulator's oversight remains separate from civil or criminal proceedings.
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Dr. Martin Jugenburg has to pay millions to former patients at his Toronto clinic for filming them using surveillance cameras.
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Judge orders Toronto plastic surgeon to pay $21M to former patients after installing 24 cameras around clinic
A Toronto plastic surgeon has been ordered to pay more than $20 million to former patients after a judge ruled that he invaded their privacy by installing two dozen cameras around his clinic, including ones in “very private places.”
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