Controversial cancer care
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* George Tolnai

I have to hand it to Bill O'Neill, a real entrepreneur (or good samaritan?), for finding a hiatus in the delivery of health care and taking advantage of it.1

Some time ago, he managed to convince a reporter of the *Ottawa Citizen* to report extensively on his activities, but that he was able to induce Barbara Sibbald, an editor of *CMAJ,* to write a 3-page commercial about the so-called Canadian Cancer Research Group is highly disturbing. Interviews with oncologists as quoted by Sibbald would lead the reader to believe that O'Neill's activities are accepted by at least some physicians.

I express shame and indignation that my own medical journal is willing to sacrifice space to publish such an insult to our beloved profession.

## Reference

1.  1. Sibbald B. Private company offers hope to cancer patients - for a price. CMAJ 1999;160(11):1619-21.