His biography glosses over a lot of the details, making it look like he retired as an honored practitioner:
http://www.secondopinion.ca/sears.html

With the hyperbolic language and cartoons, his site doesn’t look very professional, especially hen he refers to himself as “‘public enemy #1′ by many provincial governments, rehabilitation facilities, health practitioners, ambulance chasers, and special interest group-infested professional licensing bodies.”