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Survey results: Why did more than 70% not bother to vote in 2016 Doctors of BC elections
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The results on the survey so far may come as a surprise.
Was it fair to ask these questions? Some comments have questioned this, but these are some of the questions that doctors have been asking each other in hallways, over coffee, and at meetings. So why not ask them in a survey?
The survey was not sponsored by anyone. All members of doclounge can use the survey tools to create a questionnaire and the survey was made public to allow the questions to be answered anonymously. The tools can be used for any kind of survey.
What are the results of the survey?
Why did more than 70% not even bother to vote in 2016 Doctors of BC elections?
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The results of the Doctors of BC election for the 2016/2017 Board and CMA positions were announced on May 16, 2016.
More than seventy percent of doctors in BC did not even bother to vote in the election for the next President-Elect.
Two other positions on the Executive and all but one position on the Board were filled by acclamation while 3 districts have no board delegates whatsoever.
Why this disinterest? What do you think? Please complete our survey. Thank you.
Canadian Medical Association President Elect
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CMA PRESIDENT ELECT
15 JANUARY 2015
Good Morning, I hope you are well. We are all aware of the politics of medicine in Canada and I believe the CMA could be crucial to the future of the profession for several reasons I won't elaborate here.
As you know it is BC's turn to select the next President of the CMA, and DoBC sent a message this morning asking members to vote on line for the candidate of their choice between 16 January - 23 February 2015.
Is the new BC Health Care Agreement the right medicine for better health care?
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Z. Essak, MD - Dec 3, 2014.
In a few days, the three weeks of voting on the new BC health care agreement with doctors will end and the results of the vote will be known.
What have we learned through the process?
Second Opinion re: BCMA Physician Master Agreement
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BC doctors have seen several communications from the BCMA/Doctors of BC asking its membership to vote in favour of the 5-year Physician Master Agreement (PMA) by Dec. 4, 2014.
I would like to share my 'second opinion' of this complex agreement, in the sincere hope that it will help stimulate needed discussion and more thoughtful reflection amongst my fellow colleagues.
Initial responses and comments from survey on new agreement
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Here are the initial responses and comments received from the survey on the new BC health care agreement with doctors.
The survey is now closed.
Here are the results and comments:
Do you know enough about the new BC health care agreement with doctors?
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Are you a doctor? Are you a patient? Do you know enough about the new BC health care agreement with doctors?
Doctors don't need to rush to cast their vote, they have until December 4, 2014. This agreement will continue into 2019.
For doctors, will it make their work life better or worse? How will it affect their ability to deliver medical services and serve the public interest?
Will it make BC health care better or worse? Will it make health care more or less efficient? And more or less accessible?
Thank you, the survey is now closed. To view results click here.
BCMA AGM - Unfunded liabilities?
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After the presentation of the Financial Reports at Saturday's AGM of the BCMA I asked Finance Committee Chair a couple of questions. As in the past, what interested me was what had been omitted rather than what had been included.
Page 2 of the 'white paper' report contains a listing of revenue and expenses, and under the latter heading was listed Consulting and Professional Fees in the amount of $998,101.00 This was further broken down on one of the projected slides as indicating that about $250K were 'legal' fees; but no further description.
Grassroots BC doctors launch petition for BCMA to stop further punitive legal action against Dr Caroline Wang
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Grassroots BC doctors launched a petition for the BCMA to stop further punitive legal actions against Dr. Caroline Wang available online at http://bcdoctors.org and in one week over 180 doctors have signed the petition.
Doctors are being urged to sign the petition, to speak out at the BCMA AGM on May 31, to share the information with their colleagues to stop this injustice.
Some doctors have also added comments to the petition, "Given the context of the Wang story, the chilling effect is absolute".
BCMA election turnout worst ever
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Other doctors have said, "Truly pathetic turnout. Hard for me to fathom." and "I cannot believe, this must be lowest count, Wonder why?"
Some of the older doctors and past-presidents will remember Ben Trevino's prescription for a successful BCMA was "triple P", i.e. the relationship between the profession, the public and the politician - individually and collectively - in BC.
