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Judicial Review of Dr. Bonnie Henry’s Orders begins in BC Supreme Court on Monday, November 20, 2023.

Update (April 12, 2024): A Judgment has not yet been delivered. Many people hoped it would be sooner and still hope it will be soon. Dr. Z. Essak, MD - Vancouver, BC - November 19, 2023. Finally, an opportunity for everyone to hear a BC ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2024-04-13 14:50 - 6 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

Don’t FIPPA your PIPA without knowing this when it comes to personal health information.

Vancouver, BC – May 3, 2010 When it comes to the privacy of personal health information everyone in British Columbia needs to know how FIPPA (also known as FOIPPA) is different from PIPA, and the same may apply in other jurisdictions across ...

Story - zessak - 2010-05-03 09:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

More than 400 doctors attend Bill 36 HPOA Webinar by Doctors of BC

... on the Cayton report and proposed recommendations back in 2017, but Doctors of BC was not involved in the development of the HPOA. In our ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2024-04-16 11:51 - 1 comment - 0 attachments - 1 group

Has the BC Medical Association been stolen from the members?

... its total lack of transparency: "RESOLUTION B12/06/08-42 That the BCMA Board rescinds Board Resolution B89-322 of September ... MD Web Links: Alex Tsakumis blog 2012-11-06 Allan Seckel goes to BCMA http://alexgtsakumis.com/2012/11/06/exclusive-breaking-news-the-boessenk... Post-Employment Restrictions ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2021-12-09 14:07 - 6 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

What loud bells will wake BC doctors and the public to the dangers of Bill 36, the HPOA?

Dr. Zafar Essak, MD - Vancouver, BC - November 6, 2023. There is a sleeping sickness throughout our land. It has found its way into health care and affected all the doctors. It is not some esoteric thing happening in some small political arena or ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2024-04-13 14:35 - 1 comment - 0 attachments - 1 group

The future of medicine and health care in BC and Canada: Where are we going?

... one of several emanating from the agreement of 2006, with the goal of a GP for everyone in BC who wants one by 2015 - a goal ... 2016-06-07 Doctors petition for halt to health record system rollout ... are blamed on the users, not the system. ... 2016-06-10 Vancouver Sun Opinion: A GP for Me has helped many ... by Dr Terence ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2020-06-02 08:54 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - 1 group

Last chance to save BC's crumbling health care system may rest with the silent majority of physicians defeating the PMA

Opinion Dr Z. Essak, MD - Vancouver, BC - November 27, 2022. The BC health care system continues to show larger cracks as it crumbles. Are patients and doctors to believe that the BC NDP Government and the Association of the Doctors of BC ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2022-12-26 15:03 - 3 comments - 1 attachment - 1 group

Three Reasons for a Chat with Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC Health Minister Adrian Dix and BC Premier David Eby

Dr. Zafar Essak, MD - Vancouver, BC - April 5, 2023 Having worked for 40 years as a family physician in BC, when I heard the media announcements recently: that on April 3 vaccine mandates will be lifted on BC public service government workers but ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2023-08-05 08:27 - 6 comments - 1 attachment - 1 group

Is BC NDP new legislation poised to politically interfere with licensing of doctors and health professionals?

Vancouver, BC - November 24, 2022. Does the BC NDP's new legislation: Bill 36 - Health Professions and Occupations Act , introduced on October 19, 2022, set the stage for political interference in the licensing of physicians and other heal ...

Forum topic - Admin - 2022-11-25 11:22 - 8 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group

Dr Eric Cadesky becomes new President-Elect Doctors Of BC

Dr Z. Essak, MD - Vancouver BC - July 26, 2017. Congratulations to Dr Eric Cadesky on winning the election for ... elections was 24% in 2002, 10% in 2014 (and about 16% in 2017)   In the 2014 election, Peace River and East Kootanays voted ... Alan Ruddiman and Brian Day and the 25% turnout for the 2017 governance referendum.   As always, I look forward to your ...

Forum topic - zessak - 2018-02-25 18:26 - 8 comments - 0 attachments - 1 group


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