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695. The review committee, for each admissible review application, reviews the handling of the complaint by the medical examiner and, for that purpose, has the same powers as those conferred on the commissioner under section 679.
The committee must draw at least one of the following conclusions:(1) confirm the conclusions of the medical examiner;
(2) require that the medical examiner carry out a supplementary examination within the time specified by the committee and send the new conclusions to the complainant and the professional concerned, together with a reproduction to the review committee and to the service quality and complaints commissioner;
(3) refer the complaint to the persons in charge of discipline within the public institution for a disciplinary investigation or to the entity or person having the authority to take disciplinary measures within the private institution;
(4) recommend to the medical examiner or, where applicable, to the complainant and the professional concerned any measure to reconcile them; or
(5) quash the medical examiner’s conclusions and refer the complaint to another medical examiner for examination within the time specified by the committee.
2023, c. 342023, c. 34, s. 695.