Barry A. McLellan MD (Medical Dolt) LIAR
Dr. Barry McLellan was the Chief Coroner for Ontario. Prior to this position, he was the Deputy Chief Coroner for Forensic Services, having left his position as director of the NORTH Network, an experiment undertaken by the Harris government from a 1995 OMA study to compensate for hospital funding cutbacks, and doctor shortages.
The NorthNetwork has a vested interest in protecting itself against the legal pitfalls of partnership doctors treating their patients at arm's length, over the telephone, unseen, which is exactly what happened to Arlene Berry, a 41 year old mom with two young children who was treated over the telephone unseen and died less than 24 hours later. The event took place in the year 2000. A private investigation first yielded possible evidence of multiple brain abscesses, or demyelination likely masquerading as brain metastasis with evidence of possible iatrogenic drug induced meningitis based on the deceased's blood values. Certain portions of her medical record had been altered and falsified in order to cover-up a whole chain of medical negligence, which hampered meaningful investigation. No autopsy was performed. A family request for a formal inquest was also denied by Dr. McLellan. It took almost eight years of private investigating to finally uncover the truth, matching virtually all of the residual evidence to overlapping variants of the Guillain Barre syndrome. Possible wound botulism is the only logical differential making any sense at all, since Miller Fisher variant of GBS closely mimics botulism. One thing is certain and that is that Arlene Berry did not die as suggested by Dr. McLellan.
Arlene Berry was transferred from Kirkland Lake to Sudbury with an unauthorized "Status Code 0", a No Code order akin to a DNR, or withdawal of life support. According to Sudbury doctors, Arlene Berry died meeting brain death criteria. Guillain Barre syndrome is known to mimic brain death. This is a clear cut case of doctors "acting with wanton and reckless disregard for human life" and is the hallmark of criminal negligence causing death.
Dr. McLellan had concluded that Arlene Berry had died of natural causes suggestive of metastatic CA of the brain with multiple brain tumors, after eliciting an opinion of one of his fellow colleagues from the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre where he had lectured. The medical record of Arlene Berry for May 23rd and 24th of 2000 tells a very different story. In my opinion, Dr. McLellan knowingly returned a false finding.
Case in Point: SERIOUS breach of standard which goes to impeach the credibility of the Coroner's investigation into the unnecessary death of Arlene Berry. Further, Dr McLellan was Vice-President of Medical Trauma and Clinical Services at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto Ontario for 5 years. He was medical director of the NORTH Network and had recently assumed the position of Regional Coroner. A question has arisen with respect to his "relationship" to Dr. Mark Spiller?
A family request for a formal inquest into Arlene Berry's death elicited to following response from Dr.McLellan: "I want to stress that an inquest is not intended to be the vehicle by which someone is found to be responsible or accountable ...". As a result of my investigation and having carefully reviewed all information available I do not feel.. that a jury might make useful recommendations directed to the avoidance of similar circumstances". . "The venue to determine accountablity is either the criminal or civil courts". . "After careful consideration of all information available to me I have therefore made a decision to not hold an inquest into Ms. Berry's death ".
Further, Dr. McLellan had told the deceased's family that he had no dealings through his office with the College of Physicians & Surgeons. He "lied", in fact he conducted what Dr. Jordan's legal counsel described as a "parallel investigation" with "multiple communication" between the Coroners' office and the College. The Coroner had seized the medical records for almost a year before family was allowed to get them. The KDH would not release them to us without Dr. McLellan's approval even after Dr. McLellan had completed his investigation. The Coroner possesses superior knowledge or the means of discovering discrepencies in the medical record which he either ignored or deliberately withheld from the police - turning a blind eye that which should have been obvious or suspicious. The feeble-minded doctor thought he could pull a fast one, never suspecting that I would go as far as I did to prove him a liar.
Dr. Barry McLellan was one of the original proponents of the NORTH project, leaving his position as medical director of the North network to become Regional Coroner for Northeastern Ontario. In fact, he was affiliated and closely tied to all of the doctors and hospitals named in the "Arlene Berry Death Coverup", all of whom were partners in the North telehealth network. As such, Dr. McLellan had a personal and vested interest in the Arlene Berry case as to affect his personal judgment. He allowed his professional duty to come into conflict with his personal interests as to constitute a conflict of interest, ahead of public duty, which he misused for personal ends. Conflict of interest is a precondition for biased or corrupt behavior. He had a duty to disclose such interest(s) and by failing to do so he acted illegally, and in my opinion, contrary to the provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada, via provisions related to corruption in public office, and the Conflict of Interest Code, breach of trust and public endangerment by turning a blind-eye on medical wrongdoing in order to protect a local appointed coroner, Dr. Mark Spiller, working under him at the time. Dr. Spiller also so happened to be the admitting physician in this case was just as negligent as the deceased's family physician, Edward Jordan in treating their patient as routine in the face of life threatening indicators and finally ordering her death to cover up their collective medical stupidity.
Dr. McLellan graduated from the University of Toronto in 1981, a fraternity of "liars" which has abdicated its responsibility for teaching ethics and proper patient care to concentrate on "teaching medical students to lie" (something Dr. McLellan is very good at), where students are actually graded on how well they tell the lies, and where the long term benefits accrue to keeping each other out of jail. But the system has a way of promoting incompetence. McLellan achieved the position of chief coroner for Ontario based on the Peter Principle concept.
The bald truth is that the Coroners Office has for years been used as a dumping ground for cases embarrassing either to the government or the medical profession. Interestingly, Dr. McLellan went on to become Ontario's chief coroner and discredited pathologist Charles Smith in order to turn suspicion away from his own faulty findings. Much the same as the pot calling the kettle black, a classic example of the "peter principle" at work, both doctors promoted far beyond their competency levels. As a result, they are scared stiff over the prospect of being discovered and sooner or later one them does it to the other to disguise his own inadequacies.
"The theory that employees within an organization will advance to their highest level of competence and then be promoted to and remain at a level at which they are incompetent." ... "In a hierarchically structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their level of incompetence, like Dr. Charles Smith. And like Smith, Dr. McLellan also provided an opinion regarding a case where cause of death was "not reasonably supported by the materials available for review".
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