| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | My former GP was Dr. Joel Yelland at the Mediclinic (address 3301 8th Street E, Saskatoon). As a full-time employee of the Mediclinic, Dr. Yelland was answerable, medically and financially, to the clinic head Dr. Lacny. Yet from the start of 2001 Dr. Yelland began to hide or withhold his income from Dr. Lacny.
This is verified on the Statement of Medical Services which I obtained via a Freedom of Information request. The Statement lists all billings made by any health-care provider for a given patient (your may only obtain your own data). On that Statement, the “Provider Correspondence” column lists the address where a doctor wants his cheques from the Medical Care Insurance Branch (MCIB) to be sent.
What my Statement showed: During January and February of 2001, Dr. Yelland worked full-time at the Mediclinic, but had his MCIB cheques sent to a different address to “shelter” that income. During that period I had eight appointments with Dr. Yelland. On my Statement, the name of the doctor was correct, but the address had suddenly become " Pacific Avenue Medical Building" instead of the usual Mediclinic.
At that time, Dr. Yelland acknowledged he was in a bitter business dispute with Dr. Lacny. It was so acrimonious that, under questioning by police, Dr. Yelland named Dr. Lacny as the only possible author of a series of letters warning the public of Dr. Yelland´ s ignoble, abusive lifestyle. To quote the Occurrence Reports from police:
- On July 11, 2001 Cst. Kelly Hill reported: “Dr. Yelland suspects his former partner, Dr. Andrew Lacny, who did not take the dissolution of their business partnership well. Complainant has no proof but cannot think of anyone else.”
- On September 12, 2001 Sgt. James Bracken reported: “Due to the acrimonious break-up between himself and his business partner as well as money owed with respect to this break-up, Dr. Yelland states that this is the only individual he can think of that would have any kind of a beef against him to do this.”
- On November 21, 2001 Sgt. Bracken added: “While talking to Dr. Yelland, it was still determined that the only person he could think of who had any kind of an acrimonious situation between them was Dr. Lacny who still is a suspect.”? The police then compelled Dr. Lacny to undergo forensic testing of his handwriting and office equipment.
However: On December 9, 2001 Sgt. Bracken interviewed Dr. Yelland again, and achieved a quite different result. Their discussion centered on the first three lifestyle-letters, tagged by police as Exhibits 1, 2, and 3. That same day, Sgt. Bracken completed a Form titled “Request for Analysis/Examination of Exhibits" which he filed with the RCMP Forensic Laboratory. The Form contains this admission: “Dr. Yelland states the signatures on Exhibits 1, 2 & 3 are real (that is, his own signature).” This admission is astounding: Dr. Yelland confessed he was the author of the letters all along.
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