Manitoba doctor accused of defrauding another physician by faking cancer, lying to college

A Thunder Bay doctor is on a mission to recoup over $160,000 she lent to a woman who was expelled from the University of Manitoba's residency program after she fabricated evidence of a non-existent serious medical condition.Monica Kehar was expelled from the University of Manitoba residency program in 2020 and censured by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba after an investigation. When Dr. Meaghan Labine met Monica Kehar in 2018, they almost instantly became friends.

Kehar was censured by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba in 2020 and expelled from her medical program after they found she had fabricated evidence of a non-existent serious medical condition. "I'm really concerned with the degree to which the phrase or the word or the title doctor is being used."CBC News has emailed and spoken to Kehar over the phone for weeks. She would not do an interview or provide comment for this story.

Dr. Meaghan Labine says she lent Monica Kehar over $160,000 after Kehar told Labine she had breast cancer and needed help. Labine has been trying to recoup the money ever since. "It just seemed like no matter how much I lent, it was never enough," Labine said. This photo of Monica Kehar was taken from a blog post advertising her electrical muscle stimulation company Prestige Body Lab.

Kehar was investigated by the University of Manitoba for altering emails and faking a serious illness to get her medical colleagues to lend her a substantial amount of money. She appealed her expulsion twice in 2019 and told the university's local discipline committee that she had a serious health condition for which she underwent surgery. She provided the College of Physicians and Surgeons with a letter purportedly written by the office manager of her surgeon's clinic, confirming she underwent a procedure.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons found her actions to be "particularly egregious, unacceptable and unprofessional conduct for a member of the medical profession." The censure was posted online to "fulfil the college's public protection mandate." A competing business lodged a complaint against Prestige with the Fraser Health Authority, raising concerns that Kehar was representing herself as a doctor, Judge said.The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia says individuals who obtain a medical degree are allowed to call themselves doctor or indicate they have an MD, even if they are not actively practising medicine.

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