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Open Letter to Members of the Board of the CMA
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August 16, 2018
Many doctors feel betrayed by the sale of MD Management (MDM) as stated in the recent CMAJ article by Brian Owens.
The CMA is a democratic organization with elected representation from across the country. Major issues are discussed at CMA Council and motions approved by a majority of votes. Elected representatives are responsible to the physicians and surgeons of Canada. The expectation is that the CMA will behave in an open and transparent manner with respect to all issues. One would think that such a momentous decision as the sale of MDM that affects the majority of doctors and indirectly affects the rest would have been such an issue.
The statement by Dr. Brian Brodie, Chairman of the Board of the CMA that “an open and transparent conversation about the propriety of selling MDM would have been incredibly destabilizing and disruptive to the employees and clients of MDM” is incredibly patronizing and undemocratic. Furthermore, it is dead wrong. The destabilization and disruption wrought by this action is far worse.
While the decision to sell MDM may have been legal, it is a breach of the trust doctors placed in the CMA and is morally wrong. The CMA board has sacrificed the interests of doctors who invest in MDM to the interest of the CMA organization.
Doctors invested in MDM because it was promoted as being managed by and for physicians. The sale of MDM to Scotiabank has mad...Competing Interests: None declared.