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Title: Fort Chipewyan health board dismisses doctor who raised alarm about Oil Sands cancer rates
Category: Environmental
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-05-15 17:31:24
Canadian

[N_Fiddledog]

Ezra disagrees with the HuffPo/Edmonton Journal version of this story, and he's got documents.



Basically...you know that one about how the oilsands were giving the natives cancer?

Didn't happen.

[Freakinoldguy]

This went way beyond the normal scope of the anti oil activists, the "end justifies the means" hypocrisy. This man is dangerous, delusional and so consumed by his zealotry that honour, integrity and his Hippocratic oath are meaningless.

He obviously needs a great deal psychiatric help and perhaps the people who employ him, listen to him and take what he says as gospel should be standing right beside him when he gets it.

[DrCaleb]

Oh no! Ezra had a feeling!

[ShepherdsDog]

More than a feeling

[OnTheIce]

I think the oil story just makes for good headlines and glosses over the fact that the guy hadn't been in the community for years.

[Zipperfish]

Seems to be conflicting reports. The government doesn't seem in a rush to get to the bottom of it either. Doubt works in thir favour. Gives them plausible deniability down the road if there does turn out to be a link. There are certainly elevated contaminant levels in the region. Whether or not that translates into health outcomes isn't that clear yet. Given mercury levels in fish tissue, I'd be concerned if I was eating a lot of locally caught fish.

[OnTheIce]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Seems to be conflicting reports. The government doesn't seem in a rush to get to the bottom of it either. Doubt works in thir favour. Gives them plausible deniability down the road if there does turn out to be a link. There are certainly elevated contaminant levels in the region. Whether or not that translates into health outcomes isn't that clear yet. Given mercury levels in fish tissue, I'd be concerned if I was eating a lot of locally caught fish.

I think this is just an excuse by the doctor for why he was fired.

For a guy to fail to show up to work for a couple of years and then say they fired him for an issue he started to talk about 8 years ago seems unlikely.

[Zipperfish]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

I think this is just an excuse by the doctor for why he was fired.

For a guy to fail to show up to work for a couple of years and then say they fired him for an issue he started to talk about 8 years ago seems unlikely.

Did he not show up for work? Sounds like his employer was aware he was running--and maybe even contracted for--a virtual operation, and that probably saved them a lot of money.

I wondered when we'd start seeing that. We outsource most stuff these days, but medicine, by and large, is still provided live and locally. Outsourcing to India would probably save the system a lot of money.

[OnTheIce]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

I think this is just an excuse by the doctor for why he was fired.

For a guy to fail to show up to work for a couple of years and then say they fired him for an issue he started to talk about 8 years ago seems unlikely.

Did he not show up for work? Sounds like his employer was aware he was running--and maybe even contracted for--a virtual operation, and that probably saved them a lot of money.

I wondered when we'd start seeing that. We outsource most stuff these days, but medicine, by and large, is still provided live and locally. Outsourcing to India would probably save the system a lot of money.

I would suspect it was a case of "beggars can't be choosers" and even though his care was done remotely, it was still 'something'. It's not easy to get doctors to serve certain areas of the Country.

Even so, it wouldn't have hurt to show up a couple times a year.