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A prominent Ontario surgeon has had his licence suspended for one month over an unprovoked Twitter attack on two female colleagues.

Dr. Angus Maciver admitted at a disciplinary hearing that he used shocking and sexualized language to bully and humiliate the other doctors on the public forum in the fall of 2018.

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The College of Physicians and Surgeons suspended his licence for one month Friday and ordered him to pay $6,000 toward the cost of the hearing.

The female Sikh physicians he was insulting — Ashvinder Lamba and Kulvinder Gill — had no prior conversation with Maciver and had never met him, the hearing heard.

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Maciver tweeted they were, “overpaid but whining cork soakers” — a thinly disguised sexual reference. He also tweeted about, “their lack of the qualities we all expect in a physician, let alone a colleague,” and their selfishness and intolerance.

Gill and Lamba are members of a nonprofit called Concerned Ontario Doctors, which has asked hard questions of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and urged the government to undertake a forensic review of the medical organization.