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I am an Israeli physician doing a fellowship in Canada. I have read the story of the CMA leaving the WMA and I’m disconcerted. I am a member of the CMA since I’ve started practicing in Canada, until I came here I was a member of the IMA (Israeli Medical Association), which Dr. Eidelman headed until recently. Due to my previous activities in the IMA I know Dr. Eidelman very well on a professional and personal level. He is a person with a lot of organizational experience, knows how to speak in public excellently, has given several important speeches in the Israeli scene and also written important pieces in the Israeli press. He has no need for anyone else’s words! I also have heard him communicate in English, and it certainly stands to reason that he’d use speechwriters – even native English speakers do. I can’t understand why the CMA has taken an embarrassing oversight, which Dr. Eidelman duly recognized and apologized for, and turned it into an ethical stance, where there is actually no real ethical breach (notice how no other national medical association withdrew from the WMA?). Moreover, how imprudent do you think he is, that he’d knowingly plagiarize his speech like that?
To my mind, there are two possible scenarios of what happened, which carry very different consequences:
Scenario 1: Dr. Eidelman writes his main ideas. Not surprisingly, they bear resemblance, in principle, to what his predecessor presented. Given his English proficiency is not sufficient...
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