 Controversial
radio psychiatrist Pierre "Doc" Mailloux has lost his
right to practise medicine in Quebec. The College of
Physicians ruled that Mr Mailloux (he's also lost the
right to be called "Dr") is a menace to the public because
of reckless medical advice he's dispensed in his office
and on his Montreal radio show. The move comes, unusually,
before the College's investigations into 12 professional
violations, including overprescribing and giving erroneous
medical advice, are completed. The investigation could
take up to a year, but the committee deemed it too dangerous
to allow Mr Mailloux to continue to see patients.
Mr Mailloux has long hosted the
popular radio show on the French station CKAC in Montreal.
His frequently outrageous views — he has an opinion
on everything from pedophiles (he thinks they should
be castrated) to Sikhs (whom he referred to as a "gang
of bozos") — have earned him a large following
there. He also served as on-air psychiatrist on the
reality show Loft Story, the Quebec version of
Big Brother. Mr Mailloux got himself in hot water
last year while being interviewed on the hugely popular
Quebec talk show Tout le monde en parle ("Everybody's
talking about it"). He repeated an earlier claim he'd
made on the radio that studies have proven blacks and
aboriginals have lower IQs than whites.
Mr Mailloux vows he'll appeal the
decision. "I maintain I am a very good psychiatrist
and my patients are doing well," he told the French-language
news channel LCN. He added that in the meantime, we'll
be hearing from him: "There is only one place where
I will be muzzled and that is in my coffin," he promised.
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