The punishment is more severe if certain allegations are proven, she said.

“If sexual abuse of a patient, including sexual intercourse, is proven it carries a mandatory public (hearing) reprimand and the revocation of the medical licence,” to practice in Ontario.

Tadros has been working out of the Burlingwood Family Physicians practice/walk-in clinic at 2400 Guelph Line, in the No Frills plaza.

The Post visited the clinic Thursday morning to try to talk to Tadros but was told by a woman at the front desk, who would not provide her name, that Tadros hasn’t been in the office since mid-September and that he had retired.

A short time later the woman modified her comments saying she had been told by Tadros’ wife that the doctor was going to retire due to health issues.

The medical office worker said she has not seen Tadros in the Burlington office since mid-September, when the college passed a ruling restricting him to treating male patients only.

No sign indicating the college-enforced restrictions on Dr. Tadros’ licence to practice medicine were visible in the patient waiting area of the doctors office at any point during the Post’s visit.

The staffer said a sign went up in the Guelph Line office in September stating Tadros could not deal with female patients but that it was taken down the same day because Tadros indicated he was retiring.

In an email, Clarke told the Post, “…whether or not Dr. Tadros is present at his office, it is a requirement of his licence that a sign be posted in his office, in a location where it will be visible to patients, stating that he is restricted from any professional encounter or interaction with any female patient.”

Clarke said the college has previously monitored Tadros’ compliance and that “we are following up today (Thursday) to ensure that the sign is posted in accordance with the terms of the college’s order.”

The woman the Post spoke to at the medical office/clinic said healthcare for Tadros' “thousands” of patients has been turned over to three other doctors who work out of the office/clinic.

Tadros has been disciplined by the college before for acts of professional misconduct.

In 2010, he was reprimanded and ordered to pay costs of $3,650 for not providing the college with transcripts of a patient’s charts.

In 1990, he was given a licence to practice suspension of three months and an additional nine-month suspended sentence to his licence.

According to an online 2004 Ontario Superior Court of Justice document that mentions Tadros, it states he was 49 years old at the time.