This was where you distorted his Knight in shining armor reference, from its clearly intended meaning of the near-religious mandate of St. George and the Dragon as Dr. Innocent Chukwudumebi Okafor has repeatedly explained, to a Disney story version. You demonized his compassion for this broken woman, on what grounds? Let’s be clear:

a). He said from the beginning and repeatedly to his lawyers that the woman in question’s visits were walk-in visits by a known social acquaintance, which was perfectly within propriety boundaries as set in the constitution of the College. I am a witness to the fact that he stood firmly on this position from Day 1 and to how his lawyers repeatedly prevailed on him to change that to accept that she was fully under his care, i.e. as an enrolled patient, to assuage the College investigators and preclude them escalating the case to a head. This poorly veiled threat was employed throughout the investigation, anywhere Dr Okafor stood on his truth, consistent with objective records, strongly enough to frustrate the nefarious intentions of the investigation. Mr. Andrew and Ms. Jenny cannot possibly forget another instance of this: where Dr. Okafor insisted that the occasion of abruptly discontinuing her last clinic meeting with him in 2012 and asking her not to ever return to the clinic was because he saw her developing a habit for wasting his precious clinic appointment time which he cannot bill for. I am a witness to how strenuously the lawyers asked him to ‘soften’ on this position, to “please the College”, to one where he had decided to stop the visits because he suddenly saw her clinic visits as “a crossing of boundaries!!!” Interesting, that after all that, we still end up here. It was a game of bait and switch, with his medical practice insurance lawyers playing along.

The simple facts speak in his defense. Why start the written record of the visit at all, using the classic physicians’ notation “nil c/o”? And then stop abruptly? This is consistent with a clinician suddenly being told by the patient that she was not there for medical reasons. Besides, he never billed for that time! It is not hard, as I am sure the College appreciates in its erudite wisdom, to find a reason to complete the visit record and bill for the visit, if the only issue was a sudden pang of awareness at the impropriety of boundary crossing. Dr. Okafor made it clear from the very beginning that he did not bill for that visit because it was the ethical thing to do since no proper visit took place. In fact, he called in an ear infection prescription for her, as the record will show, which in my opinion suggests kindness to a friend. If only he was wise enough to know there was danger lurking!

b). At the point of sending Mr. Hickey the said letter in 2016 the woman had no further clinical encounter with Dr. Okafor, her last billed encounter was in May 2011. Even per CPSO’s own regulations he had no more physician-patient business with her and his statement therein that he will gladly continue to be her knight in shining armor during any true future episodes of existential crisis was very appropriate and not attended by any breach of College etiquette.