A Manitoba plastic surgeon was suspended from practising medicine for six weeks and ordered to pay more than $34,000 after he admitted to displaying a lack of skill, knowledge and judgment during a number of surgical procedures involving three patients over more than a decade.
During a March College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba disciplinary hearing, Dr. Manfred Ziesmann pleaded guilty to professional misconduct while providing care to three patients who had post-surgery complications between 2012 and 2023.
He admitted to displaying "a lack of knowledge, skill and judgment in the practice of medicine" in all three cases, including one in which he put the wrong implants into a woman's breasts, according to a May 25 written decision delivered by a three-person inquiry panel fo