AB whistleblowing doctors allege conflict of interest . . .

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Alberta whistleblowing doctors allege conflict of interest as province pushes private clinics

[ https://www.healthcoalition.ca/alberta- ... e-clinics/ ]

JANUARY 9, 2024 - BY PAT VAN HORNE

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“This is not trivial; this is serious stuff . . . If you have someone who is a program head in the public system, who is also a shareholder and beneficiary of work that is decanted to the private option, it seems to me that person is in an inherent conflict of interest. And if AHS ever did or still does permit it, then it strikes me as an ethical lapse. I don’t see how that would pass muster in any enterprise — public or private,” said Steven Lewis, former University of Calgary adjunct professor with more than 45 years of health-care policy and consulting, to The Tyee, January 8, 2024 . . . [ https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/01/08/Albe ... -Interest/ ]

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“I can’t believe we’re not (in Edmonton) . . . I can’t believe that we had to leave Edmonton, leave Alberta, leave Canada. But we weren’t given an alternative. We weren’t given another option,” said Dr. Daniel O’Brien, one of only three doctors in northern Alberta with the specialized skills to perform certain types of complex sinus and skull-base surgeries, to The Tyee, January 9, 2024 .. . . [ https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/01/09/How- ... d-Surgeon/ ]


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