To:
Canadian Medical
Association
04/10/2012
Attn: Dr. Anna Reid- President
Subject
The Persecution of Dr. Kamermans,
and Violation of Medical Confidentiality
Dear Dr. Reid:
I regret the necessity of
contacting you directly but I have no option given the importance of both
matters referenced above.
With reference to Dr.
Kamermans I truly believe that the CMA was a prime participant in his
ruination. As soon as the news of his arrest on Marijuana related charges was made, the CMA made a couple of comments that
effectively sent him to Coventry and isolated him from any support
from the Medical Community. I also have come to believe that this was part of
the calculated creation of a sacrificial lamb. In conjunction with the
Government, Cops, The College of Physicians of Ontario the CMA has managed to ruin the man and
ruin his practice, smear an excellent reputation, and is still costing him a
fortune to defend himself from a bunch of phoney trumped up allegations.
The CMA is to be congratulated: they
obtained their goal. Their conspiring and coordinated actions have created a
deterrent to any doctor signing any application for Medical Marijuana. Ruination by Allegation has created a
deterrent with the Power of a nuclear warhead. I truly believe that the
deterrent will prove as effective as the Crucifixion of Christ. Given the prior
fear of doctors and scarcity of doctors to fill the need for signatures, the Marihuana
Medical Access Program is dead. The fact that the 20,000 Licensees who
have approved Medical problems with severe acceptable symptoms are now going to
be forced to hunt for an affordable source doesn’t concern the CMA.
Now why is that?
Because the CMA has had its head up its ass since
2003 when they adopted the current CMA Policy on Marijuana. Ten years
later you’re still opposed for the same reasons:
unknown medical benefits and hazards. Apparently the CMA has studiously ignored all the
scientific studies of the past decade and can’t find any hazards from its use.
It must really be a downer when you sanction the prescribing of heroin,
morphine and cocaine: all fatal killers on the street but can’t find one death from a marijuana
overdose.
Unfortunately there is no
way to rectify the damage done to Dr. Kamermans, it can’t be undone. All I can
do as this point is ask you as the new President to use your influence to
change CMA policy to reflect some of the
findings of the past decade. Somehow of covert scientific investigation. If you
should like to find some scientific studies to review as to comparison with
your asinine double-blind insistence, as with pharmaceuticals, I suggest you go
to Granny’s List at
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/GrannysListJan2012.pdf
This is a small
downloadable list of 686 pages of scientific studies related to the effects of
marijuana: it might wake you up as to how little you know.
This is the end of my
wakeup lecture re marijuana based persecution based on medieval concepts.
Now to a much more serious
matter: Medical Confidentiality and its Violation
Ever since I heard of the
invasion of Dr. Kamermans office and the seizure of his Medical Records I have
been trying to find out just how the Harperites could justify such a violation
of Personal Privacy. There is no information available. I have tried the
Government, the Cops and the Media. Nada!.
I just asked the College of Physicians of Ontario the same question I now ask you.
Why are you not protesting the
confiscation, invasion, and retention of the 4000 of Dr. Kamermans Patient
Files for the past nine months?
I have checked CMA POLICY: THE MEDICAL RECORD: CONFIDENTIALITY, ACCESS AND
DISCLOSURE (UPDATE 2000) regarding the handling of Medical Records and nowhere can I find
justification for the release of one patient file without grounds for the
warrant based on a direct relationship to its contents. The mass seizure and invasion
of files on the basis of suspicion of some alleged misdemeanour should be
opposed with great vigour. As I understand the law, the files themselves are
the property of the doctor but the file contents and all the information in
those files is the property of the patient and is not to be violated or
revealed. Please advise if I am wrong in that regard. I thought you would be
interested in protecting the personal private secrets of Patients in your
files. Do you yourself have a Medical Record kept in your Doctor's office? Do
you want one of Vic Toews spies going through your personal file looking for
something as important as terrorist or pervert information? No? I
thought not. Dr. Kamermans offence minus the political exaggeration and hooplaw
is simply an alleged crime the equivalent of a traffic ticket. I don't want our
Minister of Public Safety, that self confessed adulterer going through my
personal files. He has recently shown his ability to lie distort and slander
with great zeal i.e. Omar Khadre, Justin Trudeau, Internet Privacy and on and
on...
I thought every CMA member would be protected by the
Old Boys Club if a bunch of Cops and political assholes decided to invade and
confiscate any members Confidential patient files. Is that not one of the aims
of the Association or is there some legal loophole that justifies this atrocity
to be committed without comment from you. If there is no such loophole, 9
months later without a murmur of protest from the CMA I can only conclude that either you
don’t give a damn about confidentiality or Harpo`s somehow leveraged your
silence. Go figure!
I and every patient of a CMA member deserve an explanation about
just how secure is our personal medical information if it’s in
the office of our doctor.
Can you provide one?
Please advise ASAP
Regards
Blaine Barrett
TheSmeeGoanGuy
After waiting patiently
for four weeks, I sent a follow up e-mail
Violation
of Medical Confidentiality
To:
Canadian Medical Association October
31, 2012
Attn: Dr.
Anna Reid- President
Follow up to my E-mail
of October 4, 2012
Dear Dr.
Reid or whoever is reading this in her stead:
It has now
been three weeks and you have not seen fit to answer my question about the
violation of medical Confidentiality related to the mass seizure of records in
the Kamermans arrest.
You should
not have dismissed me so lightly: Once again
Was the seizure,
invasion, and retention of the files done according to the Law?
Do you know
the answer or not?
Either you
know or you don’t:
- If you know, what legal grounds
did the Police have to seize, invade and retain Dr. Kamermans files? All
you have to do is cite me chapter and verse of what deranged law they used
and you’re off the hook.
- If you don’t know, what are you
doing to find out? I believe that the authorities broke the law when they
took those files and since your organization is supposed to be protecting
the Medical profession and its reputation, what are you advising my Doctor
if the Cops come to his door and want to take a look in my file? Is my
information vulnerable? What does the warrant have cite as authority.
I don’t
want to be confrontational but if you don’t reply to me within two weeks, there
will be consequences:
- My original request for advice
and assistance,
- This follow up second request
and warning, and
- A suitably nasty cover letter
Will be
sent to every MP, about 200 editors, published in my blog and shared with every
friend I can find.
One thing
we still have in this country is Freedom of Speech and I use it.
Please
advise
Blaine Barrett
Not surprisingly this
got a response as follows:
Dear Sir,
I would like to acknowledge receipt of your email and let you know that
it has been sent to the CMA Legal department for
appropriate review and consideration.
Kind regards,
Chantal Nadeau
Executive Assistant, Office of the
President | Adjointe exécutive, Bureau du président
Canadian Medical Association | Association médicale canadienne
1867, prom. Alta
Vista Dr., Ottawa, ON K1G 5W8
Tel: (613) 731-8610
ext/poste 2188 | Fax: (613)
731-7314 | www.cma.ca
*************
To which
I replied on Nov 09, 2012
To:
Canadian Medical Association
Attn: Ms.
Chantal Nadeau- Executive Assistant, Office of the President
Dear Ms. Nadeau:
S’mee again:
Sorry to bother you again but:
Thank you
for your referral to the CMA Legal department on Nov 2 (as you advised following.)
You might
want to give them a prod. They haven’t seen fit to acknowledge me of their
receipt of your referral and they’ve now blown one week of the two I allowed
for a response from CMA.
You might
want to suggest they pay some attention, review it, consider it and answer it
before next Friday or I conclude I’m up against a bunch of overpaid shyster
lawyers who have decided to be confrontational and are dying to get the CMA sliced up in my blog and on
Facebook, Twitter and the whole 9 yards.
All I want
is a simple understandable answer to my questions.
Chantal, I
don’t like having you in the middle of this and I’m sorry for my adversarial
approach but nothing else has given me the answer. Reality is I have nothing at
risk or to lose and the CMA has a reputation to protect. I suggest the lawyers get off
their ass and protect it.
In
anticipation of a response
Blaine Barrett
As for
showing displeasure with their stuck up attitude, might be inclined to give
them a poke in the ass.
One easy
way is copy and paste an e-mail
CMA address is
A simple
Subject line might be
MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
add
Would be
nice, and just One question as content
What are
you doing to protect the privacy of my personal data?
Please
advise.
Signed
Your name or insult
Not that I would ever ask
anyone to do something like that, but you have to admit it would be interesting
to give it a shot.
Ask-No: Beg- Maybe
We shall
see
Blaine
