While Judge Warren Zimmer heard last week from two of the doctors who saw Lionel Desmond at St. Martha's Regional Hospital in Antigonish, N.S., Zimmer will get another point of view Monday from the psychiatrist who saw Desmond in the fall of 2016. Desmond, 33, arrived at the emergency room on Jan. 1, 2017, after a fight with his wife, Shanna Desmond. Although he was kept overnight, the psychiatrist who released him told the inquiry that there were no signs he would harm himself or anyone else. The psychiatrist who released him, Dr. Faisal Rahman, read Slayter's assessment of Desmond and he asked the veteran to follow up with him. They wrote about that in his chart, but Dr. Faisal Rahman — the psychiatrist who saw him — didn't read the chart before Desmond was released.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2020 13:52 UTC