11/03/2025
Update Regarding My Professional Status
This statement is intended solely to keep my patients and community informed of my current professional status. It is not intended to criticize any individual or institution. It does not comment on the substance of any investigation, nor is it intended to influence or interfere with any legal or regulatory process. I remain fully committed to cooperating with all ongoing proceedings.
As many of you know, I have been subject to an interim suspension from medical practice since April 4, 2025. Under the Medical Act, an independent body of the College — the Complaints Authorization Committee (CAC) — is responsible for reviewing allegations and determining their disposition.
I understand that the CAC met on September 24, 2025. I have not received any written decision or reasons from that meeting. Instead, my legal counsel has been advised that the College is undertaking an “additional investigation,” and that a supplemental report is being prepared by the external investigator.
In recent correspondence, the investigator noted an awareness that I remain under interim suspension and indicated that the additional investigative steps are being taken as expeditiously as possible. Separately, College counsel has advised my legal counsel that, in their view, review of the interim suspension falls within the Registrar’s authority while the Committee remains engaged in its process.
To date, I have not received written reasons either for the continuation of the interim suspension or for any decision arising from the CAC’s September meeting. I have also not been advised of the specific issues the supplemental investigation is intended to address. Given the length of time involved, this has understandably created uncertainty for my patients, my family, and myself.
I want to be clear: I fully respect the College’s mandate and I have cooperated diligently and respectfully with every stage of the process. I am not asking for preferential treatment. I am simply requesting what all registrants are entitled to under principles of procedural fairness in Canadian professional-regulatory law: timely decisions, clear communication, and written reasons that allow a person to understand and respond to decisions that affect their professional life.
Interim suspensions have significant consequences. They interrupt continuity of care for patients and make it extremely difficult for physicians to support their families. For these reasons, fairness, transparency, and timely communication are essential safeguards in any regulatory framework.
I remain committed to fulfilling my responsibilities as a physician, a father, and a member of my communities — including the duty to model integrity, accountability, and respect for fair process. I continue to look forward to the earliest opportunity to return to practice and to resume providing primary care to the many patients and families who have expressed their support over this past year.
Thank you for your continued understanding.
Dr. Marcus Lawrence Jeddore Hancock
“Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done.”
— Lord Hewart, C.J., R v. Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy (1924)
