A recap for those of you who've tried to put Ontario medical politics out of your mind while dealing with...well, just about anything in life that's more interesting: last August, the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) membership overwhelmingly rejected a contentious tentative agreement with the governing provincial Liberals. The government tried again this past December, making an even worse offer - given to the press before the doctors this time around - that was flatly rejected by the OMA out of the gate. Though there were still voices out there looking to make peace with the government, it appeared as though nothing was going to happen until after the next provincial election.
Not to be outdone, though, 25 of the doctors most vehemently outraged by the August deal forced a special meeting of the OMA Council. At that meeting, a non-confidence motion was passed, chastening the OMA Executive for failing to fulfill its obligations to the membership. There were motions put forward to name and remove each member of the Executive as well, but none of those (binding) motions met the threshold to pass. Not that it mattered, because the entire Executive leadership resigned anyways, leaving a vacuum until elections are held this spring.
And thus begins the OMA's search for new leadership. For doctors and patients interested in this sort of thing (spoiler alert: the numbers are far less than doctors would like to believe), it means an inevitable period of instability that follows this sort of "palace coup". It means wrangling over the OMA's by-Gawd-awful-zombie idea of a doctor's strike!
Why anybody would be in a rush to head up the OMA is a mystery. The outgoing President, Dr. Virginia Walley, caught memoir, now in Kindle and paperback formats!
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
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