(Canadian Medical Assoc) CMA got flood of feedback during its dialogue with Canadians

"The CMA's 2011 campaign to gather Canadians' input on their health care system was a marriage of old and new methods - town hall meetings, the Internet and social media - and it produced an unprecedented amount of feedback.
That becomes clear quickly in Voices into Action, a report that provides a synopsis of the information gathered by the CMA since the launch of its National Dialogue on Health Care Transformation last year......"

article/opinion piece: Canadian medical Association - CMA Emerges Dazed from Cave, Writes Report :: Longwoods.com

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Steven Lewis, President Access Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon & Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University

media: Doctors call for patients' charter of rights + advocate Dr Durhane Wong-Rieger

Note: Dr. Durhane Wong-Rieger can also be referenced through WHO/PAHO/Canadian Patient Safety communities

"We do not have a system that at this point is focused towards timely, accessible, sustainable care from a patient perspective," said Durhane Wong-Rieger, president of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, in an interview following her address to the CMA. "I think it's become a huge bureaucracy on its own."

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