A Maple Ridge doctor has once again been censured by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons after a three-year investigation found him guilty of contravening restrictions on his practice.According to a release from the provincial regulating body last month, Nesbitt, a general practitioner, prescribed medication for 41 female patients, 10 of whom received prescriptions for controlled substances, despite an order by the college to restrict his practice to male patients only. The college ordered Nesbitt to pay a fine of $25,000, and suspended him from practicing medicine for two years.Nesbitt voluntarily withdrew from practice in October 2007 while the college investigated the matter.“Many of them were former patients of mine, so I had charts for some of them,” Nesbitt has previously stated. Many of the patients were elderly, and given that it was summer, and a number of other doctors in town were away on vacation, he felt he needed to help them.“They were in an acute crisis,” he said.Before Nesbitt is eligible to return to his practice, he will have to undergo psychiatric or psychological assessment and counselling, as well as complete a multi-disciplinary assessment program chosen by the college.Should Nesbitt return to his practice, the college requires he be supervised, see patients only when other staff are present in the clinic, and be subject to periodic reviews.Nesbitt has been repeatedly disciplined by the college for a variety of infractions over the past decade.In 2000, Nesbitt was suspended from practicing medicine for one year and fined $5,000 after he admitted to sexually touching and fondling a female patient. In 2004, Nesbitt admitted that he was guilty of unprofessional conduct by making inappropriate sexual remarks to a patient during the course of an examination. Nesbitt was suspended from practicing medicine for three months and required to attend counselling by the college. Nesbitt received a six-month suspension from the college in 2005 and was fined $2,500 for failing to meet required professional standards of care by using inappropriate language in front of a patient. Nesbitt filed a civil suit with the B.C. Supreme Court last June in the hopes of stopping the college’s proceedings against him.While Nesbitt declined requests for an interview, he has created website on which he criticized the college and its decision. Titled, “The College of Goats and Chickenstuff,” the site features pages of rhyming verse detailing the course of the investigation, accompanied by pictures of chickens and goats.“The College... feels that I need a psychiatric assessment, and an assessment of my competence as a physician,” Nesbitt states on the website. “They want a psych assessment despite the fact that in recent years I have already been assessed by approximately [18] psychiatrists and psychologists (all chosen by the College), and all of whom have – without exception - stated I am completely capable of practicing competent medicine.” Nesbitt was ordered to pay his estranged common-law partner, Wendy Neufeld, $40,000 after publicly defaming her on Facebook, in emails and online after she sought to place restrictions on his visitation rights to their child.Nesbitt created a blog called “The Wicked Wendy Neufeld Website,” which contained disparaging remarks about Neufeld’s character, as well as that of her family and friends.