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Posted: Jan 13, 2021 11:19 AM MT | Last Updated: January 14
Dr. Wynand Wessels, a white Grande Prairie surgeon, admitted in a disciplinary hearing that he tied this noose and taped it to the door of a hospital operating room in June 2016.(Submitted by Dr. Carrie Kollias)
A white Grande Prairie surgeon who tied a noose and taped it to the door of an operating room in June 2016 where it could be seen by Black colleagues is guilty of unprofessional conduct, a regulatory body concluded in a ruling released Wednesday.
But the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) said there was not enough evidence to conclude that Dr. Wynand Wessels was motivated by racism or intended to create a racist symbol when he hung the rope on the door.