Marie-Louise Fitrion says she was asleep in a hospital bed when she woke up to an obstetrician’s hand in her vagina.

It was Oct. 25, 2018, the morning of giving birth to her second child, and she says it triggered the memory of being sexually assaulted as a child.

Fitrion is sharing her experience dealing with that doctor, Esther Park, in the wake of Dr. Park’s resignation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) on April 30, which came after her licence was restricted to office-based gynecology on Dec. 17, 2024.

The college investigated Park’s practice for “infection control issues” after Toronto Public Health found medical instruments were not properly cleaned, disinfected and sterilized at her clinic. Since then, former patients have come to The Canadian Press wi

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