The Canadian Medical Protective Society Core Values and Beliefs: A Life and Death Lived Experience

" Consistent Core Values Dr Powell often reiterated the value: Our organization does not consist in the fights we have put up or in the open success we have had but rather in the silent influence we have swayed against litigants who for a money gain have sought to blast the reputation of conscientious, painstaking and reputable practitioners knowing or suspecting that they have an easy mark and that to avoid publicity a medical man will often submit to what amounts to blackmail. These litigants have found out that our Counsel stands ready to accept service of the writ and your Executive stands ready with a bank account to furnish the sinews of war. Dozens and dozens of cases have thus been strangled at their inception and have disappeared like dew off the grass. This feature gentlemen is the strength and glory of your association. (CMPA Annual Report, 1919)"

from Wikipedia

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W5  Stacked Odds  The Uphill Battle of Taking on Doctors who make medical errors March 13, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z35oDSnZ7g  

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Respect?  

Can you imagine the current Minister of Health for the Province of Manitoba, The Honourable Uzoma Asagwara, in writing through email dated January 16, 2025 (I believe) advised me to contact the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba to resolve a conflict (criminal complaint filed against it)?

Sucker born every minute?  Easy Mark?

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Doctors Without Boundaries  The Fifth Estate 2016

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xifx_Iatlgs

 792,397 views Jan 22, 2016

"When doctors are accused of crossing ethical or legal boundaries with their female patients, why does it sometimes take so long for authorities to act - if indeed they act at all? And what does it take for a doctor to lose the right to practice medicine in Canada? Bob McKeown investigates doctors who faced discipline by provincial colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. Did those bodies adequately protect patients?"

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A headline from the Winnipeg Free Press - "Docs aren't cops.  They shouldn't police themselves" August 17, 2022

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Just my humble opinion, based on my lived experience, they IN FACT do not. 

The Canadian Medical Protective Society and its core values and beliefs re: patients would suggest that it is the patient that is always guilty of a crime. 

Our organization does not consist in the fights we have put up or in the open success we have had but rather in the silent influence we have swayed against litigants who for a money gain have sought to blast the reputation of conscientious, painstaking and reputable practitioners knowing or suspecting that they have an easy mark and that to avoid publicity a medical man will often submit to what amounts to blackmail

The CMPS was created by federal statute. 

"The CMPA was incorporated by a special Act of Parliament. The Act of Incorporation for The Canadian Medical Protective Association was passed by the House of Commons on February 27, 1913, and assented to on May 16, 1913."

As of 2016 the CMPA had  95,691 members.

Why did my MP for Winnipeg South, Mr. Terry Duguid deny the feds had any jurisdiction over the administration of healthcare?

Silent influence?  Gentlemen?