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A Chinatown physician, nicknamed the “Robin Hood doctor” for prescribing millions of dollars in special diet allowances to the city’s poorest residents, has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

Roland Wong — accused of abusing the provincial food-aid program by over-prescribing special diets for people on social assistance, while personally collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in OHIP income — failed to maintain the standard of practice of the profession and behaved unprofessionally, a disciplinary panel of Ontario’s College of Physicians and Surgeons concluded Wednesday.

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“The suggestion was made that Dr. Wong’s endorsement of these [special diet] claims represented advocacy for his patients,” the panel wrote in its 35-page decision. “Advocacy for a patient, however, should not trump one’s professional integrity.”

Dr. Wong’s case has been grinding through the system since June 2011, with about a dozen hearing dates scattered over the past year and a half.