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Five Steps to Take When a Professional Conduct Complaint is Lodged Against You

October 1, 2020

As a self-regulated health professional, it can be a stressful experience to receive notice from your College that a patient has filed a complaint ...

Author: Brooke Shekter

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Physician Assistants, Legal and Ethical Use in Practice

September 4, 2020

The response to my previous opinion piece regarding the legal and ethical use in practice of Physician Assistants [PA] demonstrates, in my opi...

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Doctors Should not be Treating Physician Assistants as Substitutes

August 26, 2020

People visiting a walk-in clinic or family health team office may be seen by someone with a stethoscope around their neck, who they will likely ass...

Related Services: Provincial Licencing  |  Fitness to Practice/Disability  |  Peer Review/Quality Assurance  |  Advocacy and Representation of Health Care Professionals

 

Canadians have nothing to fear from private-sector involvement in public health care

July 30, 2020

It should be obvious to everyone that our current healthcare model is not working, as evidenced by waitlists that sometimes stretch beyond a year a...

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As Alberta now realizes, private clinics are the best way to tackle long waitlists

July 22, 2020

Alberta is on the right track with a bill that will make it easier for private surgical clinics to be established, setting the example for other pr...

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How Much Risk is Reasonable Risk a Health Care Professional is Expected to Take in a Pandemic?

April 24, 2020

Those on the frontlines in the battle against COVID-19 deserve the best personal protective equipment (PPE) that is available. If hospital administ...

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It’s Time to Look at Health Care Through a Different Lens and Embrace Private Clinics

March 9, 2020

As we await the verdict in a B.C. Supreme Court case where Dr. Brian Day argued the private sector has a role to play in our public health-care sys...

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Despite Being Denied Basic Democratic Dispute Resolution, Doctors Need to Keep Fighting for Fair Treatment

August 5, 2016

The Ontario healthcare world is abuzz about the latest development in the ongoing battle between the Ontario Medical Association (OMA), its members...

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In Negotiations, Binding Arbitration is Non-Negotiable

August 2, 2016

On July 11, 2016, the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) made an unexpected announcement to its members – it had reached a tentative four-year...

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What Ontario Doctors Can Do to Make the Provincial Government Treat Them Fairly

January 19, 2016

The Ontario Government has made unilateral and significant cuts to the fees that doctors are allowed to charge for the services they provide. Despite protestations by the province’s physicians and their request to put the matter to binding arbitration, the province remains unwilling to budge on its position.

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