Toronto Mt Sinai ER doctor and CBC broadcaster H.B.GOLDMAN , gave a speech at the Toronto eHEALTH 2011 Conference (1,682 attendees). On medical errors, he admitted to misdiagnosing two verteberal fractures on an ER x-ray, sending the male patient home with Percocets.
He also pointed out that he is a Peer assessor for the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Goldman is against the use of templates in Electronic records as in his opinion they do not convey the subtleties of the medical interaction. On nthe other hand he does not like handwriting.
30 May 2011
DISTRICT 11 election. A SPECIALIST DIRECTOR elected.
District 11 with over 10,000 members in Metro Toronto (inc Scarborough) now has a SPECIALIST Director with four GP Directors and a GP President.. All male.
Obs/Gyn Lawrence COLMAN MD (U.Western Ont. 83) FRCS(C)
Obs/Gyn Lawrence COLMAN MD (U.Western Ont. 83) FRCS(C)
29 May 2011
MEDICAL LICENCING FEES
Ontario "College" $1485: 50% of "College" committee members are non-medical political appointees. MEDICAL Council members make approx $90,000/year in various Committee fees.(approx $1,000/day)
California Medical Board :$808
California Medical Board :$808
28 May 2011
CPSO: Danger of non-Academic practice.
Dr. Carolyn Dean – April 29, 2011
http://www.naturalnews.com/032229_medical_monopoly_allopathic_medicine.html
(NaturalNews) The general public doesn't realize there is an ongoing war for the control of our bodies. Allopathic medicine and the pharmaceutical industry demand a monopoly on treating disease and will stop at nothing to achieve that end.
I know this to be true because I've been portrayed a so-called victim of their schemes. My story comes up periodically as the "haters" of natural medicine or the hired quackbusters try to discredit anyone involved with natural medicine. I don't consider myself a victim but simply a knowledgeable participant in the age-old struggle of power versus authority.
Back in 1979 when I set up my practice as a dedicated natural medicine doctor with a medical license and naturopathic degree, my mere existence threatened allopathic medicine. I further drove a nail in my own coffin by going on the media and talking about alternatives to drug-based medicine. I was a thorn in the side of the medical establishment.
In 1989, when I was writing a book on sugar, I was asked to appear as a guest on The Dini Petty Show on CTV, a Canadian television nework. It was a Christmas show airing on December 11 and the topic was sugar overindulgence during the holidays and how to counter it.
Dini specifically wanted me to talk about sugar and its effects. I came prepared with my research and my props. In front of a gaping audience, I spooned out the ten teaspoons of sugar in a can of soda and the twenty-seven teaspoons in a milkshake. A scientist in Montreal on friendly terms with a sugar lobby group in Ottawa apparently was not impressed. He and the lobby group enlisted a Toronto doctor who had never seen the show and who didn't know me. Together they sent a letter of complaint to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO).
The CPSO is a licensing body for Ontario physicians and has a mandate to "protect the public and guide the profession." They really had no authority to accept a complaint from the sugar industry. However, at that time the CPSO was staging an all-out war against natural medicine. A brilliant environmental medicine doctor, Josef Krop MD, was under attack along with many Ontario doctors practicing any form of alternative medicine. Dr. Krop's battle is documented by Helke Ferrie in her book Malice in Medicine: The 14-Year Trial of Environmental Physician, Dr. Jozef Krop.
Medical doctors are licensed and regulated by their own medical boards. Increasingly, these boards are populated with representatives of the drug industry, health insurance industry, and doctors who are paid "advisors" for pharmaceutical companies. Drug and insurance affiliations represent a conflict of interest or, at the very least, a vested interest in promoting allopathic medicine.
The CPSO was not concerned about the dangers of sugar or the need to help alert the unsuspecting public. They only seemed to care about keeping the status quo, supporting industry, and admonishing doctors who were not conforming to the "standard practice of medicine." That standard for a general practitioner allowed them to only prescribe drugs and recommend surgery.
The CPSO reprimanded me, almost four years later, on May 25, 1993. Here are the words they used that actually indict them, not me. "Dr. Dean is hereby admonished regarding sensational and scientifically unsubstantiated comments and misleading statements about sugar and sugar substitutes and their relationship to diabetes, infection, osteoporosis, hyperactivity, and addiction." The CPSO was given copies of my still-unpublished book on sugar but chose to ignore its hundreds of supporting references.
The sugar complaint alerted the CPSO to my style of medicine and I believe they sent a "provocateur" to my office in July, 1990. This intruder wrote to the CPSO and said I was "incompetent" because in his one visit I refused to give him a homeopathic remedy for his allergies. If I had given him a homeopathic remedy on his first visit, he would have complained about that since his only purpose was to attack me.
Based on that incredible fabrication, the CPSO leapt at the chance to enter my offices without warning and take thirty-six patient charts so they could go on a "hunting expedition" to find something wrong with my practice and remove my license.
With unbelievable timing, the CPSO took the files from my office in December 1991, four days before I was due to close my practice for a one-year sabbatical, which I had been planning for three years. After several months my charts were returned, with no charges being laid. A year passed, and there was still no word from the CPSO about my case. At this point I spoke with my lawyer who corresponded with the CPSO about my case and was told that they were not proceeding. I was fairly confident this was true because my lawyer returned the retainer I had given him!
My year-long sabbatical to study a new medical modality turned into a permanent position for me in New York City when the doctor I was working with suddenly died and left me to complete his work. The CPSO, however, had apparently not forgotten about me. Somewhere in mid-July, 2005, almost five years after the frivolous complaint was lodged, without my knowledge and without me being in attendance, the CPSO stole my license. I did not lose my license, I did not misplace it, my license was stolen by short-sighted, angry people, who wanted to control medicine and were terrified of anyone who didn't think like they did.
Ironically, I no longer had an Ontario license at the time it was "taken." I had stopped paying the exorbitant Ontario license renewal fee when I realized I would remain in New York and did hold a California medical license. The CPSO essentially revoked a non-existent license. I was not a threat to Ontario patients since I no longer had a practice. Their intent was to send a warning to other doctors to stay within the boundaries of allopathic medicine. Notice of my license revocation was prominently displayed in the quarterly report sent out by the CPSO to all doctors in Ontario. That is how I found out about my case when a friend called to express her shock.
When I learned about my license removal in Ontario, I hired a Toronto lawyer. She spoke with the CPSO lawyers and I was made the following offer. They would give me back my license if I agreed to sign a stipulation that I would no longer practice natural medicine. Essentially, if I committed to doling out prescriptions for drugs that I knew had side effects and refused to give my patients the safe options afforded by natural medicine, I would be "free" to practice.
In my mind that would be tantamount to tying my arms and legs together, gagging me, and ripping out my heart and soul. I refused. I suppose it would have been an easy solution since I wasn't planning to go back to Ontario and I wouldn't have to practice under their restrictions. However, ethically and morally it was never a viable option for me.
Knowing about the side effects of allopathic medicine and the safer options, it would be like a soldier killing innocent victims on the orders of an insane general. I could not use the Nuremberg Defense blaming my "superiors" to escape guilt and punishment. Somebody in the chain of command had to take a moral stand.
Shortly after I found out that my license had been stolen in Ontario, the California State Licensing Board sent me a letter saying that Ontario had notified them that I was unfit to practice medicine and advised them to revoke my California license. I immediately hired a lawyer in California and successfully saved my California license by providing the California authorities with the facts about my case in Ontario, which were riddled with inconsistencies and procedural errors. This was a novel move for the California State Licensing Board, which usually just follows the direction of another jurisdiction. It meant that I had a strong case against the Ontario CPSO.
My "sugar adventure" reiterates the lengths to which the sugar industry and allopathic medicine will go to retain their monopoly control over our health, taste buds, and purses. You would be correct to suspect that doctors live in fear of having a complaint lodged against them. Therefore, publicizing cases where a natural medicine practitioner loses her license will keep other doctors from stepping out of line.
Patients, on the other hand, assume that doctors would tell them if sugar, environmental pollution, prescription drugs, or any other substances were dangerous. However, since it can cost them their medical license, most doctors are unwilling to pay the price. This is especially true since most doctors are in deep financial debt when they finish medical school and can't afford to lose their livelihood. Accordingly, there are few health professionals who are willing to tell the truth.
During the purge of alternative medicine doctors in Ontario, there were at least two who committed suicide in the face of brutal attacks by the CPSO. In his ongoing struggle, Dr. Jozef Krop had to raise over a million dollars to pay for legal fees as he fought battle after battle. After fourteen years of this torture Dr. Krop finally voluntarily gave up his license.
When people ask me if I regret refusing the deal offered by the CPSO to give me back my license, I find myself in the position of many of my patients who overcome serious diseases. I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for that stressful experience. I firmly established myself in the natural medicine camp and proved that I would never compromise my principles.
If I had made that first compromise, the ordeal never would have ended. I probably would have become a TV doctor, constantly having to water down my opinions to please my sponsors. Instead of writing influential books like Death by Modern Medicine, I would have compromised my words and opinions for my publishers. Like many doctors I would try to rationalize that allopathic medicine is helping people, turning a blind eye to the millions suffering from lack of safer options. Or I would have ended up like a doctor friend of mine who recently wrote me these poignant words: "I have nothing to show for the work, the studying, the earnest desire to 'do right by my patients'. It is all corporate now. A hungry field, with doctors who are afraid others will notice that they, indeed, have no clothes."
By being blacklisted I achieved the silver lining of independence. I'm perfectly happy with who I am and where I am, living in a beautiful home on Maui, working on my twenty-third book, writing articles which are not censored, doing telephone consultations and promoting my lifestyle and wellness program, Future Health Now!
Reaction by the public against the attacks on my group of alternative medicine colleagues led to the passage of a law in Ontario in 2000 that allows doctors to practice alternative medicine and permits patients to receive alternative medical care. The official explanation of the Act is as follows: "The Bill ensures that physicians who provide non-traditional therapies or alternative forms of medicine are not found guilty of professional misconduct or incompetence unless there is evidence that proves that the therapy poses a greater risk to a patient's health than the traditional or prevailing practice." Winning!!
http://www.naturalnews.com/032229_medical_monopoly_allopathic_medicine.html
(NaturalNews) The general public doesn't realize there is an ongoing war for the control of our bodies. Allopathic medicine and the pharmaceutical industry demand a monopoly on treating disease and will stop at nothing to achieve that end.
I know this to be true because I've been portrayed a so-called victim of their schemes. My story comes up periodically as the "haters" of natural medicine or the hired quackbusters try to discredit anyone involved with natural medicine. I don't consider myself a victim but simply a knowledgeable participant in the age-old struggle of power versus authority.
Back in 1979 when I set up my practice as a dedicated natural medicine doctor with a medical license and naturopathic degree, my mere existence threatened allopathic medicine. I further drove a nail in my own coffin by going on the media and talking about alternatives to drug-based medicine. I was a thorn in the side of the medical establishment.
In 1989, when I was writing a book on sugar, I was asked to appear as a guest on The Dini Petty Show on CTV, a Canadian television nework. It was a Christmas show airing on December 11 and the topic was sugar overindulgence during the holidays and how to counter it.
Dini specifically wanted me to talk about sugar and its effects. I came prepared with my research and my props. In front of a gaping audience, I spooned out the ten teaspoons of sugar in a can of soda and the twenty-seven teaspoons in a milkshake. A scientist in Montreal on friendly terms with a sugar lobby group in Ottawa apparently was not impressed. He and the lobby group enlisted a Toronto doctor who had never seen the show and who didn't know me. Together they sent a letter of complaint to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO).
The CPSO is a licensing body for Ontario physicians and has a mandate to "protect the public and guide the profession." They really had no authority to accept a complaint from the sugar industry. However, at that time the CPSO was staging an all-out war against natural medicine. A brilliant environmental medicine doctor, Josef Krop MD, was under attack along with many Ontario doctors practicing any form of alternative medicine. Dr. Krop's battle is documented by Helke Ferrie in her book Malice in Medicine: The 14-Year Trial of Environmental Physician, Dr. Jozef Krop.
Medical doctors are licensed and regulated by their own medical boards. Increasingly, these boards are populated with representatives of the drug industry, health insurance industry, and doctors who are paid "advisors" for pharmaceutical companies. Drug and insurance affiliations represent a conflict of interest or, at the very least, a vested interest in promoting allopathic medicine.
The CPSO was not concerned about the dangers of sugar or the need to help alert the unsuspecting public. They only seemed to care about keeping the status quo, supporting industry, and admonishing doctors who were not conforming to the "standard practice of medicine." That standard for a general practitioner allowed them to only prescribe drugs and recommend surgery.
The CPSO reprimanded me, almost four years later, on May 25, 1993. Here are the words they used that actually indict them, not me. "Dr. Dean is hereby admonished regarding sensational and scientifically unsubstantiated comments and misleading statements about sugar and sugar substitutes and their relationship to diabetes, infection, osteoporosis, hyperactivity, and addiction." The CPSO was given copies of my still-unpublished book on sugar but chose to ignore its hundreds of supporting references.
The sugar complaint alerted the CPSO to my style of medicine and I believe they sent a "provocateur" to my office in July, 1990. This intruder wrote to the CPSO and said I was "incompetent" because in his one visit I refused to give him a homeopathic remedy for his allergies. If I had given him a homeopathic remedy on his first visit, he would have complained about that since his only purpose was to attack me.
Based on that incredible fabrication, the CPSO leapt at the chance to enter my offices without warning and take thirty-six patient charts so they could go on a "hunting expedition" to find something wrong with my practice and remove my license.
With unbelievable timing, the CPSO took the files from my office in December 1991, four days before I was due to close my practice for a one-year sabbatical, which I had been planning for three years. After several months my charts were returned, with no charges being laid. A year passed, and there was still no word from the CPSO about my case. At this point I spoke with my lawyer who corresponded with the CPSO about my case and was told that they were not proceeding. I was fairly confident this was true because my lawyer returned the retainer I had given him!
My year-long sabbatical to study a new medical modality turned into a permanent position for me in New York City when the doctor I was working with suddenly died and left me to complete his work. The CPSO, however, had apparently not forgotten about me. Somewhere in mid-July, 2005, almost five years after the frivolous complaint was lodged, without my knowledge and without me being in attendance, the CPSO stole my license. I did not lose my license, I did not misplace it, my license was stolen by short-sighted, angry people, who wanted to control medicine and were terrified of anyone who didn't think like they did.
Ironically, I no longer had an Ontario license at the time it was "taken." I had stopped paying the exorbitant Ontario license renewal fee when I realized I would remain in New York and did hold a California medical license. The CPSO essentially revoked a non-existent license. I was not a threat to Ontario patients since I no longer had a practice. Their intent was to send a warning to other doctors to stay within the boundaries of allopathic medicine. Notice of my license revocation was prominently displayed in the quarterly report sent out by the CPSO to all doctors in Ontario. That is how I found out about my case when a friend called to express her shock.
When I learned about my license removal in Ontario, I hired a Toronto lawyer. She spoke with the CPSO lawyers and I was made the following offer. They would give me back my license if I agreed to sign a stipulation that I would no longer practice natural medicine. Essentially, if I committed to doling out prescriptions for drugs that I knew had side effects and refused to give my patients the safe options afforded by natural medicine, I would be "free" to practice.
In my mind that would be tantamount to tying my arms and legs together, gagging me, and ripping out my heart and soul. I refused. I suppose it would have been an easy solution since I wasn't planning to go back to Ontario and I wouldn't have to practice under their restrictions. However, ethically and morally it was never a viable option for me.
Knowing about the side effects of allopathic medicine and the safer options, it would be like a soldier killing innocent victims on the orders of an insane general. I could not use the Nuremberg Defense blaming my "superiors" to escape guilt and punishment. Somebody in the chain of command had to take a moral stand.
Shortly after I found out that my license had been stolen in Ontario, the California State Licensing Board sent me a letter saying that Ontario had notified them that I was unfit to practice medicine and advised them to revoke my California license. I immediately hired a lawyer in California and successfully saved my California license by providing the California authorities with the facts about my case in Ontario, which were riddled with inconsistencies and procedural errors. This was a novel move for the California State Licensing Board, which usually just follows the direction of another jurisdiction. It meant that I had a strong case against the Ontario CPSO.
My "sugar adventure" reiterates the lengths to which the sugar industry and allopathic medicine will go to retain their monopoly control over our health, taste buds, and purses. You would be correct to suspect that doctors live in fear of having a complaint lodged against them. Therefore, publicizing cases where a natural medicine practitioner loses her license will keep other doctors from stepping out of line.
Patients, on the other hand, assume that doctors would tell them if sugar, environmental pollution, prescription drugs, or any other substances were dangerous. However, since it can cost them their medical license, most doctors are unwilling to pay the price. This is especially true since most doctors are in deep financial debt when they finish medical school and can't afford to lose their livelihood. Accordingly, there are few health professionals who are willing to tell the truth.
During the purge of alternative medicine doctors in Ontario, there were at least two who committed suicide in the face of brutal attacks by the CPSO. In his ongoing struggle, Dr. Jozef Krop had to raise over a million dollars to pay for legal fees as he fought battle after battle. After fourteen years of this torture Dr. Krop finally voluntarily gave up his license.
When people ask me if I regret refusing the deal offered by the CPSO to give me back my license, I find myself in the position of many of my patients who overcome serious diseases. I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for that stressful experience. I firmly established myself in the natural medicine camp and proved that I would never compromise my principles.
If I had made that first compromise, the ordeal never would have ended. I probably would have become a TV doctor, constantly having to water down my opinions to please my sponsors. Instead of writing influential books like Death by Modern Medicine, I would have compromised my words and opinions for my publishers. Like many doctors I would try to rationalize that allopathic medicine is helping people, turning a blind eye to the millions suffering from lack of safer options. Or I would have ended up like a doctor friend of mine who recently wrote me these poignant words: "I have nothing to show for the work, the studying, the earnest desire to 'do right by my patients'. It is all corporate now. A hungry field, with doctors who are afraid others will notice that they, indeed, have no clothes."
By being blacklisted I achieved the silver lining of independence. I'm perfectly happy with who I am and where I am, living in a beautiful home on Maui, working on my twenty-third book, writing articles which are not censored, doing telephone consultations and promoting my lifestyle and wellness program, Future Health Now!
Reaction by the public against the attacks on my group of alternative medicine colleagues led to the passage of a law in Ontario in 2000 that allows doctors to practice alternative medicine and permits patients to receive alternative medical care. The official explanation of the Act is as follows: "The Bill ensures that physicians who provide non-traditional therapies or alternative forms of medicine are not found guilty of professional misconduct or incompetence unless there is evidence that proves that the therapy poses a greater risk to a patient's health than the traditional or prevailing practice." Winning!!
26 May 2011
CPSO CANDIDATES for COUNCIL METRO TORONTO (CPSO Dist 10)
CPSO pays about $1,000 a day (including preparation time) plus travel expenses to Council reps. $90,000 a year is average for 90 days work
The two present reps sre seeking re-election. OMA District 11 paid for a dinner meeting at the OMA office for the candidates 16 attended out of 10,000 Dist 11 OMA members.
GP-psychotherapist Marc GABEL MD ( NY State Univ-Brooklyn 1962) No CCFP. Shares office with Psychiatrist Gary Burrows MD(UBC 82) at 411 Richmond St.West, suite 401 (nr Spadina Av.) No hospital privs.
GP Kumar GUPTA MD(Manitoba 94) CCFP at 431 King St. East (nr Parliament) No hospital privs.
Both GPs & Specialists are eligible but few non-retired specialists are candidates.
Doctors with up-to-date hospital knowledge are urgently needed to be able to judge Hospital practice when serving on the Discipline committee.
The two present reps sre seeking re-election. OMA District 11 paid for a dinner meeting at the OMA office for the candidates 16 attended out of 10,000 Dist 11 OMA members.
GP-psychotherapist Marc GABEL MD ( NY State Univ-Brooklyn 1962) No CCFP. Shares office with Psychiatrist Gary Burrows MD(UBC 82) at 411 Richmond St.West, suite 401 (nr Spadina Av.) No hospital privs.
GP Kumar GUPTA MD(Manitoba 94) CCFP at 431 King St. East (nr Parliament) No hospital privs.
Both GPs & Specialists are eligible but few non-retired specialists are candidates.
Doctors with up-to-date hospital knowledge are urgently needed to be able to judge Hospital practice when serving on the Discipline committee.
20 May 2011
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17 May 2011
15 May 2011
POLITRAIN INC.
Stephen Skyvington
President
PoliTrain Inc.
P.O. Box 175
Cobourg, Ontario
K9A 4K5
(416) 859-2239
(905) 377-0948
(416) 985-2239
http://politrain.ca
Stephen Skyvington has been involved in politics and government since 1988. In addition to working in various provincial ministries at both the political and bureaucratic levels, he has played a role in a number of election and leadership campaigns, both federally and provincially.
From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Skyvington was the manager of government relations for the Ontario Medical Association. During this time, he ran the OMA Political Action Committee, organized physicians to lobby elected officials at all three levels of government and created the MD/MPP Contact Program with over 1,000 participants. Mr. Skyvington also organized the very successful Lobby Dinner and Doctor Day programs, as well as spearheading the development of the MD Candidate and Leadership Skills Training Programs.
Association of Ontario Neurologists
Canadian Constitution Foundation
Certified General Accountants of Ontario
Coalition of Family Physicians of Ontario
Medicor Cancer Centres Inc.
Niagara Region Police Association
OMA Section on General & Family Practice
OMA Section on Pediatrics
Ontario Kinesiology Association
Peel Regional Police Association
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
Sleep Disorders Centre of Metropolitan Toronto
Toronto Police Association
Work Wellness
President
PoliTrain Inc.
P.O. Box 175
Cobourg, Ontario
K9A 4K5
(416) 859-2239
(905) 377-0948
(416) 985-2239
http://politrain.ca
Stephen Skyvington has been involved in politics and government since 1988. In addition to working in various provincial ministries at both the political and bureaucratic levels, he has played a role in a number of election and leadership campaigns, both federally and provincially.
From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Skyvington was the manager of government relations for the Ontario Medical Association. During this time, he ran the OMA Political Action Committee, organized physicians to lobby elected officials at all three levels of government and created the MD/MPP Contact Program with over 1,000 participants. Mr. Skyvington also organized the very successful Lobby Dinner and Doctor Day programs, as well as spearheading the development of the MD Candidate and Leadership Skills Training Programs.
Association of Ontario Neurologists
Canadian Constitution Foundation
Certified General Accountants of Ontario
Coalition of Family Physicians of Ontario
Medicor Cancer Centres Inc.
Niagara Region Police Association
OMA Section on General & Family Practice
OMA Section on Pediatrics
Ontario Kinesiology Association
Peel Regional Police Association
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
Sleep Disorders Centre of Metropolitan Toronto
Toronto Police Association
Work Wellness
14 May 2011
Ontario Medical Association HYPNOSIS SECTION
HYPNOSIS SECTION of the OMA is looking for members.
Contact the OMA:416 599 2580
Courses on HYPNOSIS are arranged.
Contact the OMA:416 599 2580
Courses on HYPNOSIS are arranged.
13 May 2011
AUDIENCE
Canada 173
United States 52
Russia 19
United Kingdom 6
Germany 5
Ireland 4
India 3
Denmark 1
United States 52
Russia 19
United Kingdom 6
Germany 5
Ireland 4
India 3
Denmark 1
11 May 2011
POLICE OVERTIME RATES compared to OHIP GP hourly rates.
Right-wing Toronto Mayor FORD wants to reduce amount of $60 an hour overtime paid to Police for controlling traffic around construction sites by using cheaper Traffic Wardens.
OHIP-paid GPs make about $120 an hour GROSS with usually 40% overhead = $72 NET an hour.
OHIP-paid GPs make about $120 an hour GROSS with usually 40% overhead = $72 NET an hour.
9 May 2011
Justice IVAN RAND Formula
The Ontario Medical Association Dues Act states that:
1. (1) This Act applies to physicians who are legally qualified medical practitioners and who are engaged in the practice of medicine in Ontario or who conduct health research in Ontario. 1991, c.51, s.1 (1).
Idem
(2) This Act does not apply to interns or residents who are engaged in the practice of medicine in Ontario or who conduct health research in Ontario only as employees of a public hospital under the Public Hospitals Act. 1991, c.51, s.1 (2).
Member dues
2. Every physician who is a member of the Ontario Medical Association shall pay the Association’s dues and assessments. 1991, c. 51, s. 2.
Non-member payments
3. (1) Every physician who is not a member of the Ontario Medical Association shall pay the Association amounts equal to the dues and assessments that the Association would charge if the physician were a member.
Therefore, as you can see, all physicians practicing medicine must pay OMA dues with few exceptions, as listed. There is no exception made for physicians who do not bill OHIP. This is true even if the physician in question is not a member of the OMA.
JENNIFER GOLD
Legal Counsel
jennifer.gold@oma.org
1. (1) This Act applies to physicians who are legally qualified medical practitioners and who are engaged in the practice of medicine in Ontario or who conduct health research in Ontario. 1991, c.51, s.1 (1).
Idem
(2) This Act does not apply to interns or residents who are engaged in the practice of medicine in Ontario or who conduct health research in Ontario only as employees of a public hospital under the Public Hospitals Act. 1991, c.51, s.1 (2).
Member dues
2. Every physician who is a member of the Ontario Medical Association shall pay the Association’s dues and assessments. 1991, c. 51, s. 2.
Non-member payments
3. (1) Every physician who is not a member of the Ontario Medical Association shall pay the Association amounts equal to the dues and assessments that the Association would charge if the physician were a member.
Therefore, as you can see, all physicians practicing medicine must pay OMA dues with few exceptions, as listed. There is no exception made for physicians who do not bill OHIP. This is true even if the physician in question is not a member of the OMA.
JENNIFER GOLD
Legal Counsel
jennifer.gold@oma.org
7 May 2011
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Kenneth H. Falchuk, MD founded Best Doctors in 1989 and has served on the Board of Directors since its inception. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Falchuk was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and was an active member of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was also on the affiliate teaching staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jose Halperin, MD Founder
Jose Halperin, MD co-founded Best Doctors in 1989 and has served on the Board of Directors since its inception. A cum laude graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, he joined the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School in 1984 as an Associate Professor of Medicine and is an active member of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. For the past 16 years, Dr. Halperin has developed a strong research program at the Laboratory of Membrane Transport. His recent discovery of a drug with great anti-cancer potential made national news.
Lewis Levy, MD Medical Director
As the Medical Director of the U.S. Group Health Division, Dr. Lewis Levy provides medical leadership to the clinical operations team to deliver the highest quality clinical information on diagnosis and treatment to members and their treating physicians. He has over twenty years of clinical experience as an internist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. Dr. Levy also has an extensive teaching career through his role as a Preceptor in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and also as an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
David Harrison, MD Associate Medical Director
David Harrison, MD, Associate Medical Director for the U.S. Group Health Division, has served with Best Doctors since 2005. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and trained in the Harvard Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program. In addition to his work with Best Doctors, Dr. Harrison maintains an active primary care practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Harrison works closely with our clinical staff to ensure delivery of the highest quality service to all of our members
Two Harvard Medical School physicians created Best Doctors to realize their vision of making the best medical expertise available around the world. In our continuing effort to identify the very best that medicine has to offer, Best Doctors has assembled the Best Doctors Medical Advisory Board, which supports and guides our vision across the globe.
Kenneth H. Falchuk, MD Founder
Kenneth H. Falchuk, MD founded Best Doctors in 1989 and has served on the Board of Directors since its inception. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Falchuk was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and was an active member of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was also on the affiliate teaching staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jose Halperin, MD Founder
Jose Halperin, MD co-founded Best Doctors in 1989 and has served on the Board of Directors since its inception. A cum laude graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, he joined the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School in 1984 as an Associate Professor of Medicine and is an active member of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. For the past 16 years, Dr. Halperin has developed a strong research program at the Laboratory of Membrane Transport. His recent discovery of a drug with great anti-cancer potential made national news.
Lewis Levy, MD Medical Director
As the Medical Director of the U.S. Group Health Division, Dr. Lewis Levy provides medical leadership to the clinical operations team to deliver the highest quality clinical information on diagnosis and treatment to members and their treating physicians. He has over twenty years of clinical experience as an internist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. Dr. Levy also has an extensive teaching career through his role as a Preceptor in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and also as an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
David Harrison, MD Associate Medical Director
David Harrison, MD, Associate Medical Director for the U.S. Group Health Division, has served with Best Doctors since 2005. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and trained in the Harvard Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program. In addition to his work with Best Doctors, Dr. Harrison maintains an active primary care practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Harrison works closely with our clinical staff to ensure delivery of the highest quality service to all of our members
HARVARD: BEST DOCTORS CANADA
www.bestdoctorscanada.com
Founded by HARVARD MDs in1989. 30 countries. 15-million (5-mill in Canada)
Toronto: 1 Queen St.E.
Individual $125/yr
Founded by HARVARD MDs in1989. 30 countries. 15-million (5-mill in Canada)
Toronto: 1 Queen St.E.
Individual $125/yr
3 May 2011
OMA Board Motion to block Retired docs without CPSO licence to stand for Election.
An attempt by OMA Board to forbid docs who had given up their CPSO licence to be eligible for ANY elected post was defeated by 90 to 70. Only 160 of 260 delegates bother to turn up for the Sunday 1/2 day meeting for which they are paid. 1600 retired OMA members don't have CPSO licences @ $1482/yr. This new By-law affected FIVE COUNCIL members including past MRC Chairman GIBLON. OMA PP WEXLER, also on CPSO Council, spoke against the bylaw. Will be reviewed again at next Council.
1 May 2011
OMA election Medical assembly rep on Structure & Bylaws committee
Richmond Hill U.Tor, Paediatric Lecturer Hirotaka YAMASHIRO MD (Tor.93) FRCPC FAAP got 97 votes over UCC educated, U.Tor Professor of Psychiatry Blake WOODSIDE MD (UWO 82) MSc FRCPC 84 votes.
Council has approx 260 paid delegates. Many were absent at today's Sunday morning session.
Council has approx 260 paid delegates. Many were absent at today's Sunday morning session.
OMA: 1600 members do not have a CPSO licence,( $1485/year)
1600 elderly OMA members do not have a CPSO licence. FIVE are elected COUNCIL members (including a past Chair of the CPSO Medical Review Committee).
The OMA Board passed a bye-law requiring ALL members elected to any OMA office to have an active CPSO licence. This was rejected by COUNCIL today by 90 votes to 70.
CPSO has no reduced fee for retired doctors.
The OMA Board passed a bye-law requiring ALL members elected to any OMA office to have an active CPSO licence. This was rejected by COUNCIL today by 90 votes to 70.
CPSO has no reduced fee for retired doctors.
CPSO: MD not allowed to order tests for family.
New CPSO policy disapproves of a doctor ordering tests for family members.
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