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Doctors urged to document decision-making process

Are Ontario doctors better represented now than four years ago? The jury is out, and the priority shouldn’t be less democratic representation. While we know that well over 90% of doctors don’t pay any attention to medical politics, their well-being can and will be affected by the quality of how their interests are represented.

As a member of the Equity in Medicine team, I volunteered to discuss the gender pay gap in Canada for an online hour-long session on a weekday evening in early July. I thought the attendance in the summer would be around a dozen people if we were lucky. The response was incredible, enough to make me hope (faintly) that women physicians in this country may finally have had enough of being treated so unfairly when it comes to remuneration and angry enough to push hard for justified change.

This past weekend marked the fourth anniversary of the defeat of the 2016 tPSA (tentative Physician Services Agreement) at the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). It marked the culmination of the efforts to mobilize almost two-thirds of the membership to vote against the deal, despite heavy pressure from the then board to approve it. In the aftermath of that agreement, there have been some significant and rather seismic changes at the OMA, and it’s worthwhile looking back to see what’s different, and what still needs to be done.

Many Canadian doctors who fall sick or are forced to self-isolate as a result of COVID-19 won't have their incomes protected

A woman who calls herself a "death midwife'' has been banned from using the title after a lengthy legal battle launched by the College of Midwives of British Columbia. The B.C. Appeal Court has overturned a lower court ruling that had granted Pashta MaryMoon the right to use the term when she argued that preventing her from using it violated her charter rights.

The Pharmacy Association of Alberta says 128 pharmacies have applied to participate in the pilot