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News Release
MRG Open Letter to Dennis Timbrell
November 22, 1979
The Hon. Dennis Timbrell, Minister of Health, Queen's Park, Toronto,
Ontario.
Dear Mr. Timbrell:
We are disturbed by your continuing refusal to address the critical
problems of the Ontario health care system, most recently evidenced
by your insensitive, even cynical response to a petition signed
by 275,000 Ontario residents. On behalf of the more than 100 Ontario
physicians and medical students who are members of the Medical Reform
Group, we take strong exception to your continuing attempts to minimize
the problems currently faced by ourselves, our colleagues, and our
patients. Crowded emergency departments, inadequate numbers of chronic
care beds, overworked nursing and support staff, lack of opted-in
consultants -- these are a daily fact of life for us, and no amount
of statistical sleight-of-hand or political bombast can obscure
this fact. The victim is the Ontario public.
The more than a quarter of a million people who recently signed
an NDP petition did so not because of information provided by the
NDP or any other political party, but as a result of the frustrations
they have encountered in their own dealings with the health care
system. Your failure to recognize this is deplorable. Rather than
spend $55,000 of the taxpayer's money to send your own partisan
response to each person who signed the petition, we feel you would
be well-advised to put the money where it is needed most -- into
the health system and into research designed to correct its ills.
As members of the Steering Committee of the Medical Reform Group
of Ontario, we are
Yours very truly,
C. Carver M.D.
D. Copes M.D.
J. Marshall M.D.
cc:
Toronto Globe and Mail
Toronto Star
Toronto Sun
Hamilton Spectator
Health critic, Liberal Party
Health Critic New Democratic Party
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Rights – Community
Health – Community
Health Centres – Drug
Substitution – Epidemiology
– Epidemiology/Community
Medicine – Health
Administration – Health
Care Budgets – Health
Care Cost Containment – Health
Care Costs – Health
Care Delivery – Health
Care Finance & Fund-Raising – Health
Care in Canada – Health
Care in Ontario – Health
Care in the U.K. – Health
Care in the U.S. – Health
Care Myths – Health
Care Reform – Health
Care Resources – Health
Care Services – Health
Care Workers – Health
Clinics – Health
Determinants – Health
Economics – Health
Expenditures – Health
Issues – Health
Policy – Health
Policy/Seniors – Health
Service Organizations – Health/Social
Justice Issues – Health
Statistics – Health/Strategic
Planning – History
– Hospitals
– Labour
Medicine – Medical
Associations – Medical
Costs/Foreign – Medical
Education – Medical
Ethics – Medical
Human Resources – Medical
Personnel – Medical
Research Funding – Medicare
– Medication
Use – Medication
Use/Seniors – NAFTA/Health
– Occupational
Health & Safety – Patients'
Rights – Pharmaceuticals
– Physician
Compensation – Physician
Human Resources – Pro-Choice
Issues – Public
Health – Publications/Health
– Social
Policy – Women's
Health
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