OMA COUNCIL MEETING Nov..21-22 at Toronto HILTON. About 250 delegates attended together with OMA non-voting member observers.
Smoked salmon breakfast on Saturday..Scrambled eggs .bacon and sausage on Sunday.. Meals by Ruth's Chris. restaurant..
Cost of Council meeting is approx. $2,000,000 includes Delegate daily payment + travel and hotel expenses.
NAVIGATOR Ltd. has been retained for MEDIA COMMUNICATION.regarding recent Liberal Prov. Govt 5% fee cuts.to MDs services.
OMA recommended fees are twice the Prov.Liberal Govt OHIP rate for non-Ontarians.A fall of over 50% in past 45 years since beginning of Ontario State medicine.
Council was concerned that 25,000 Mid-East refugees to be admitted to Canada in 2015 would have medical costs billed to the Provinces instead of the FEDERAL Liberal Govt. The Ontario Liberal govt has set a "cap" on MD fees. If expenses are above the cap there would be further reduction in OHIP fees
ELECT ION of DIRECTOR by COUNCIL (not by the District) from the GENERAL & FAMILY PRACTICE ASSEMBLY (includes Emergency and Palliative Medicine(, Ottawa ER Dr.Atul Kumar KAPUR MD(UWO 1991) FRCPC-ER(1999) MSc(Ottawa 2002) won on second ballot.
On first ballot ( 6 men) North York Surgical assistant was eliminated.
Another 3 eliminated: Windsor Palliative medicine GP; Richmond Hill GP & CPSO investigator; Manotick GP.
ELECTION by COUNCIL of DIRECTOR from SURGICAL ASSEMBLY (3 men)
SUDBURY OPHTHALMOLOGIST Stephen Eugene KOSAR MD (U.tor. 1981) FRCSC (1990)
Other two candidates Ottawa and Peterborough anaesthetists
23 Nov 2015
20 Nov 2015
OMA retains Toronto 69 Yorkville Av JEFF ANSELL & Assocs. to teach PUBLIC SPEAKING.
COMMENT: Rhetoric not taught in most schools. Pitch, Pace, Pause and Inflection make speech effective. Too many Anglophone Canucks speak in a flat monotone. Francophones are better speakers.
OMA selected JEFF ANSELL & Assocs to teach OMA members how to speak to the media.
www.jeffansell.com
OMA selected JEFF ANSELL & Assocs to teach OMA members how to speak to the media.
www.jeffansell.com
17 Nov 2015
15 Nov 2015
Can Federal Liberal Govt to admit 25,000 migrants.from Middle -East.
COMMENT
Cost approx $100-million/year.for free medical expenses(including drugs) plus Social service payments.$6000 immediate payment = approx $150-mill. plus $1000/month = $300-mill/yr.
Federal Liberal Govt has not disclosed medical screening for Mental illness, Infectious diseases and Physical disorders.
Ontario docs will be at risk of complaints to College of Physicians and Surgeons from Liberal Government Federally sponsored migrants living in Ontario.
Cost approx $100-million/year.for free medical expenses(including drugs) plus Social service payments.$6000 immediate payment = approx $150-mill. plus $1000/month = $300-mill/yr.
Federal Liberal Govt has not disclosed medical screening for Mental illness, Infectious diseases and Physical disorders.
Ontario docs will be at risk of complaints to College of Physicians and Surgeons from Liberal Government Federally sponsored migrants living in Ontario.
7 Nov 2015
Globe & Mail: LIBERAL MINISTER of HEALTH Bilingual Markham GP JANE PAULINE PHILPOTT (nee LITTLE) MD (UWO 1984) MPH(Tor.-Global health)
1989-1998 worked in Francophone NIGER where her eldest daughter died from Meningococcal meningitis(Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome).Member of pacifist Mennonite Church.
5 Nov 2015
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Comment: Garbage in; garbage out.. Good`example 1998 LANCET (1823) article on Autism & MMR immunization. Also CPSO Lawyers at CPSO Tribunal confused about PEER REVIEW & COMMISSIONED article.
4 Nov 2015
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