The Canadian Medical Association is Failing All Medical Patients

The Canadian Medical Association is Failing All Medical Patients

The Simple Truth

Protect Your Private Medical Details From the Cops?

The CMA can’t be Bothered!

I truly did not want to do this but the CMA and its new President Dr. Anna Reid called my hand. I don’t bluff

I have twice requested that she and the CMA simply advise me whether the invasion of 4000 medical files of Dr. Rob Kamermans was legal or not? If not what were they going to do about it? It appeared to me to be a clear violation of the CMA Policy regarding Third party access to Medical files without the consent of the patient. They have simply ignored me despite the matter being referred to their Legal Department who also have decided they can chuck me into the circular file.

Well, hold on boys. I wasn’t bluffing when I threatened to wave your dirty linen to get the stink out. You don’t give a shit about a major violation of Patients’ privacy, I don’t give a shit about yours.

The manner in which the following questions were posed to you, and your failure to answer is a perfect display of egocentric arrogant conceited “Assholism” beyond medical help. You’re all doomed to die with your head up your ass.

Too good to talk to the common people are you?

The distribution of this letter guarantees it will make a great number aware of the fact.

 The best part is when my readership reads this; they’ll all snicker like shit.

I love it. Isn’t Freedom of Speech great?

To all you current readers read on. It’s and enjoyable expose of “Assholism” surgery or the “Anal Resection and Head Extraction Procedure”. It was wise to remove it from your recommended procedures: it never did work!

Read on you spectators

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

121004- Letter to Canadian Medical Association

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

cmamsc@cma.ca

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:

1. 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.

2. 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:

1. My original request for advice and assistance,
2. This follow up second request and warning, and
3. 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

TheSmeeGoanGuy

Not surprisingly this got a response as follows:

Nadeau, Chantal chantal.nadeau@cma.ca  to me Nov 2 (2 days ago)

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

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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

TheSmeeGoanGuy

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

cmamsc@cma.ca

A simple Subject line might be

MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY - WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

add

CC: to Thesmeegoanguy@gmail.com

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

TheSmeeGoanGuy