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Patients are frustrated that they’re getting little information from the University of Ottawa Health Services after their trusted family doctor was accused of sexual assault and voyeurism.

Jodi Samis, 33, had been a patient of Dr. Vincent Nadon since she was a 19-year-old uOttawa student and kept driving to see him from Rockland because of that long history with a “professional” physician.

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Then she received the same “vague” email that the UOHS sent to the media a day after 56-year-old Nadon was arrested. It said only that “very serious charges” had been laid against one of their family doctors. The email from a no-reply account didn’t name him and didn’t say how patients could get more information.

It was the first she’d heard of it so Samis did an Internet search and got “a really nasty shock.”

“I thought for sure it wasn’t going to be him,” she said. “Wouldn’t they have said something to me? It didn’t feel like the university was doing what they could to protect patients.”