"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Doctors at the Canadian Medical Association convention in Edmonton voted 64% in favour of a resolution endorsing patients' rights to seek out private alternatives for medical care when the public service is unable to provide it in a timely manner.
The CMA resolution read like a shorthand version of the Supreme Court ruling in June in a Quebec case, which said patients who are prepared to spend their own money to get timely care should be allowed to do if delays in the public system are jeopardizing their health. posted by Sydney on
8/19/2005 08:44:00 AM
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