A B.C. doctor has been fined for unethical conduct for publishing a graphic account of the death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan.
Dr. Kevin Lee Patterson admitted to unethical and unprofessional conduct for writing the story about Cpl. Keven Megeney's death in March 2007.
The B.C. College of Physicians has ordered Patterson to pay $5,000 for the cost of his hearing and make a charitable donation of $7,000 -- the amount he received for the story published in Mother Jones magazine.
He will also get a formal reprimand from the college and will have to participate in ethics education.
The Canadian Forces did not charge Patterson for writing the account, but Cpl. Matthew Wilcox faces multiple charges in connection with the death.
Megeney, a 25-year-old reservist from Stellarton, N.S., died after he was shot in the chest in his tent at Kandahar Airfield, the main NATO base in southern Afghanistan.
