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Canadian Health Minister's speech to the Canadian Medical Association (3871 words) |
 | Part of the reason the CMA has been so effective through the years is that it has always had outstanding leadership and that tradition was certainly continued over the past year by Dr. Sunil Patel. |
| Canadians understand the pressures the system is facing and they want their governments to work together - and to work with providers - to fix what needs fixing. |
| Canadians understand these benefits of a public health care system and they have made it abundantly clear that they want their governments to fight for medicare, not over medicare. |
| Canadian Medical Association - correspondence re infant male circumcision (2584 words) |
| In response to my question as to why the Canadian Medical Association was continuing to tolerate a practice which appeared to violate the CMA Code of Ethics, you replied that enormous differences in point of view prevented the CMA from taking a stand on the issue. |
| In the course of a protracted correspondence with the Canadian Medical Association on the subject of infant male circumcision, I have gained the impression that the CMA's posture on this issue is informed not so much by principle as by political expediency. |
| A medical benefits or "therapeutic" justification requires that overall the medical benefits sought outweigh the risks and harms of the procedure required to obtain them, that this procedure is the only reasonable way to obtain these benefits, and that these benefits are necessary to the well-being of the child. |
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