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Doctors share responsibility for damaging discourse

Kieran Conway
CMAJ January 08, 2018 190 (1) E21; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.733500
Kieran Conway
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    Noel Corser
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    • Noel Corser, Family Physicians, n/a

    I appreciated Dr. Conway's response to this article, as I believe there are many physicians in Canada who are supportive of the government's attempts to address taxation inequities (even though we may take issue with some of the details). And I believe he's quite right in saying that it harms our professional reputation when the CMA, and others, are so very vocal on this issue without acknowledging the nuances involved. Our reputation is already tainted in the public's eye by modern medicine's cozy relationship with the financially-driven drug industry. Once our patients start to see us as more interested in the monetary aspects of medical practice than in our professional obligation to seek their welfare first, we will lose their trust. Our business is based on trust, and it's easier to lose it than regain it. Like much of politics, the details are what count in the end, and unfortunately the medical profession's public discussion about these taxation changes is heavy on pressure-tactics, light on nuance, and even lighter on any constructive suggestions of our own.

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    • Donald Prior, Retired Orthopaedic Surgeon, None

    I agree with the Letter from Dr. Kieran /Conway. Physicians must be aware of the optics of their discourse by the general public. If only those same physicians could demonstrate the same enthusiasm in enhancing care by their own actions, instead of denigrating others.

    Competing Interests: None declared.
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