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CMAJ: Mayoral Candidate Assails Activist Doctors

Posted on April 30th, 2010 by gbloch.

In the CMAJ today, Toronto mayoral candidate Rob Ford says, "A doctor is there to be a doctor, not to advocate for the poor ... That’s frightening, when I think about it. You can’t have people in the medical field doing that."

Guess what ... we can, we should, and we do ... and it's evidence-based!

For the full article, see:

www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/30apr10-mayoral-candidate-assails-activist-doc...

Poverty represents a serious but reversible threat to the health of Ontarians. As health providers we enjoy privilege and access to power which many others do not. As a high-impact health intervention, we will work to eliminate poverty.