Do Colleges Cause Physician Suicide? A New Book

Surgeons should not remove normal breasts or amputate healthy legs. Some things should never happen.

In the late 1990s, surgeons confronted wrong site surgery. They said it should be a ‘never event’ and have changed process to make it so.

We can directly relate at least 6 physician suicides to doctors being under investigation by Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons across Canada. Have the Colleges confronted this and changed they way they work?

Blog posts about medical regulation remain popular topics for doctors, for example, Is Self-Regulation Dead? and Concentration of Power – Are Medical Regulators Autocratic?

Dr. Albert Benhaim just published a medical best seller in Quebec: The Execution: A doctor’s battle against moral and institutional harassment. Continue reading “Do Colleges Cause Physician Suicide? A New Book”

Victimhood Culture

Being tough is out of style, except in sports and criticizing doctors…soccer notwithstanding.

Trudeau’s tears make the front page. It is woke to cry.

Canada used to be tough. Life was hard. You needed grit to survive.

Parents wanted children to grow up and leave childish things behind. Life is better now, softer.

Toughness has less value in a world of Starbucks and Superstores. Why celebrate pioneering toughness when there is no pioneering left to do?

Toughness also has a dark side. Grit without compassion is cruel, heartless. Humans are born cruel and learn compassion. For those raised poorly, “Grow up,” might mean, “You are nothing.” Continue reading “Victimhood Culture”

Social Trust and the Welfare State

I need a medication that I don’t want to take and am too cheap to buy. I just avoid certain foods.

My son wants me to eat with abandon like him.

“Dad, aren’t your drugs free?”

“No,” I said. “Only kids’ meds are covered.”

“Well, why don’t you just get it under my name?”

“Because that would be lying.”

“Oh, good point,” he said. His shy smirk reassured me.

Johan Norberg created a documentary called Sweden — Lessons for America. Most of us picture Sweden as a socialist utopia. Norberg says, No. Continue reading “Social Trust and the Welfare State”