Dr. Alan Ruddiman wins Doctors of B.C. run-off election against Dr. Brian Day
Dr. Alan Ruddiman has been elected as the new president of Doctors of B.C.
Ruddiman received 3,065 votes in the run-off election against Dr. Brian Day, who supports expanding privately funded healthcare.
Day, an orthopedic surgeon and founder of the for-profit Cambie Surgery Centre, was originally elected president by a one-vote marigin in May; Ruddiman subsequently asked for a recount of the vote, which determined that one vote had not been counted, making the original vote for president a tie.
Day received 2,462 votes in the run-off election, or 44.5 percent of the vote.
In a statement, Doctors of B.C.'s chief electoral officer and CEO Allan Seckel thanked the candidates, "for their desire to lead our Association, and for their dedication to the profession."
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6 Comments
ursa minor
Jun 19, 2015 at 1:22pm
As someone who worked at BC Children's and VGH during Bill 11 and it's fallout, good riddance, Dr. Evil.
superman major
Jun 19, 2015 at 6:11pm
As someone who needed care that the government didn't want to provide and was able to purchase *immediate* care at False Creek Healthcare for a few hundred bucks, I'm disgusted by the selfish attitude of people who would prefer that I be denied private healthcare.
Ha ha ha
Jun 19, 2015 at 8:54pm
I still do not think it has been explained how one ballot could have not been counted in an online poll. I don't think I ever heard "someone wrote in, and we didn't find the letter soon enough" or whatever.
Dee Chardain
Jun 20, 2015 at 9:18am
Within the evolution of human society - we either realize we are a (inter)national family of families - or not. Families take care of each other - families do not put price tag$ on the health & well being of loved ones ... thank you BC MD's for love & the rest of us will be wise to VOTE SMART in the electoral process.
@superman major
Jun 20, 2015 at 10:48am
We all pay for the medical profession through our taxes, which support the universities and hospitals, as well as through the monopoly that physicians enjoy, which deprives us all of our faculty of physic, as it were.
The idea that rich people can queue jump is disgusting; I suspect that if we had an over-abundance of doctors, the ones at False Creek would have been drummed out of the profession. The College of Physicians and Surgeons says it is not allowed to charge money for an initial consult, nor are physicians allowed to refuse patients for nonmedical reasons. If a physician lacks the expertise to treat a patient, that is one thing, tho, really, that raises the question of whether or not the physician is competent. A physician is not allowed to refuse to treat "hard cases", so why should she be allowed to refuse to treat "poor cases"?
I might be able to get behind something like False Creek if they put 10-20% of their appointments aside for the sick and disabled, but they don't. There is absolutely no evidence that this private care is improving our public care. It simply allows people with money to avoid addressing the crisis in public care.
Kiskatinawkid
Jun 21, 2015 at 1:31pm
Superman Major: Instead of aiming your "disgust" at the people who believe in "public" healthcare, it would be better aimed at the useless corporate shills in the BC LIEberal party and the reformatories in Ottawa. That's where ALL of the blame lies!
The public health care system is far more efficient, effective, caring and all inclusive than a pirate (private) system could ever be. But it needs to be properly funded.
I don't blame you for "jumping" the queue to get treated. But you shouldn't of had to. And the only reason you did, is because you could afford to pay off you gold card.