Health committee  The other piece is to make sure, as I said in my presentation, that there are no impediments to the amount of assistance provided to those families that require assistance to eat a healthy diet. I can't tell you the number of times I get asked to fill out a form to allow someone

Health committee  Thank you. I would like to thank the committee for inviting the Canadian Medical Association to appear on this important topic. As a family physician in Saskatoon and the past president of the CMA, I can assure you that Canada's physicians have an acute interest in drawing atte

Status of Women committee  Very, very quickly, and this will be the last question I'll be able to stay for. My thanks to you, Madam Chair, for allowing me to leave. I think it is an improvement that the benefits that are available under programs such as EI will be extended to self-employed professionals.

Status of Women committee  There is a choice.

Status of Women committee  I think Dr. Gartke has said it all, but really it is a question of mentorship and leadership from those of us who are currently active in the profession to achieve those kinds of goals and specifically to address the systemic issues that are still barriers. We have come a long wa

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  I would share your concern if people were listening to those voices. But I have no reason to believe that this is a sentiment that is held by the deans of the colleges of medicine, or by the people responsible for entry into medicine. Those people who are responsible for ensuring

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for that question. I think the question you are asking is whether there is push-back from men about the number of women that are in medicine. You raised the question of marks as the bar to pass to entry into medical school. In the statistics I presented to y

Status of Women committee  If I may start, I think it's fair to say that any time physicians are able to work in collaborative group settings, whether that's shared practices among the same discipline, or any kind of sharing with other practitioners, clearly there is a less stressful work environment when

Status of Women committee  I think doctors have always understood that there needs to be cover. If one is working where there is someone with whom one can share the load, there is that ability to take a bit of personal time away from the practice and R and R, which is not available to a solo practitioner.

Status of Women committee  Thank you Madam Chair, and good afternoon. As you said in introducing me, I am Anne Doig. Like the chair, I am a family physician. I provide complete family medicine services, which means that I treat patients in hospital and in my office, including obstetrical services. I have

Health committee  I think I ought to defer to all my colleagues to my left to give the technical answers to that, but the short answer is yes. Whenever we have to find a workaround to something that is current best practice or current standard procedure, we can often find a workaround, but there i

Health committee  Thank you for that question. I think perhaps the best way to answer your question is simply to underline the language that Dr. McEwan has used, which is exactly that: it is stressed stability at the moment. If you reflect on the language I used when I spoke to you about the H

Health committee  Thank you, and good afternoon, Madam Chair. It is my pleasure to address the committee as part of its monitoring of the situation related to the supply of medical isotopes. As a family physician, I am not an expert in nuclear medicine, but I do refer patients for diagnostic and

Finance committee  Okay. To your second question first, if I may, I think what you are really alluding to is the philosophical debate that has to occur. It has to occur in a non-partisan way, without party lines. I won't even say across party lines. We need our constituents, our public--my patient