A Canadian plastic surgeon is accused of filming thousands of exposed individuals in his Toronto clinic without the need of their consent, in accordance to stories.

Dr. Martin Jugenburg, 45, who calls himself “Dr. 6ix,” allegedly filmed the people in his two-tale clinic in Toronto’s Royal York Resort and posted some of the images on line, The Nationwide Post noted, citing a disciplinary panel.

The panel accuses Jugenburg of, among other issues, letting a film crew to film a breast augmentation surgical treatment, from the patient’s needs.

“What this case is about is Dr. Jugenburg’s repeated breaches of his patients’ privateness, his repeated breaches of his patients’ confidentiality,” Carolyn Silver, a lawyer representing the regulator, advised the panel. “And these breaches by Dr. Jugenburg associated not only his very own sufferers, but lots of other clients who have been witnessed at his place of work in downtown Toronto by other medical professionals who he authorized to use his business office place.”

Jugenburg’s attorney advised the panel Wednesday that his clinic admitted to committing skilled misconduct but denied other allegations in opposition to him.

He stated he would have hardly ever allowed a Tv movie crew to movie a medical procedures experienced he known the patient did not consent.

“I understood she consented to have the crew in the medical procedures, but only to film,” Jugenburg instructed The Toronto Sunshine. “There was no penned consent and in hindsight, it is some thing I should really have finished.”

The expenses against Jugenburg say there were 24 cameras put in in the course of the clinic in early 2017. A doc from the disciplinary panels states two symptoms – one particular in the foyer and a further in the operating area – notified people of the cameras, although a single was not obvious.

“There had been no indicators notifying patients that they were being recorded during their client encounters, consultations and/or treatments. [Jugenburg] also did not convey to people that these recordings were accessible to him on his phone” by means of an app, it mentioned.

Recordings attained by the regulator, exposed patients’ “breasts, buttocks and genitals,” in accordance to the doc.

Jugenburg emailed his individuals in 2018, explaining that the cameras were for “security purposes,” and apologized for not making them apparent, The National Write-up noted.

The regulator purchased Jugenburg final 12 months to take away all cameras from places the place people would be uncovered.

Jugenburg’s hearing is scheduled to previous by way of July.