From: johnturmel@yahoo.com   
      
   JCT: I've been plagued by the need for testimony showing   
   Heatlh Canada calls doctors to pressure them on dosages. And   
   their Doctor association to pressure them too. They contacted   
   one Ontario patient's doctor and also his his association to   
   contact him too. Double pressure. The doctor caved and asked   
   the patient to find another doctor.   
      
   But I had no witness for Bob Woolsey's charter challenge   
   coming up Monday in Abbottsford BC. And serendipity, Queen in   
   the guts to make a Straight, Scott McCluskey wrote to the   
   Gold Star Team:   
      
   NEW Federal Privacy Breach complaint, URGENT   
      
   Yesterday, I was contacted by Jason Trudeau of the Federal   
   Privacy Commissioner's office. He is the lead investigator in   
   the complaint over the clause 203(1) I initiated. We have a   
   good relationship. I have a lengthy call planned with him this   
   coming Monday. He seems very much on our side. So hopefully we   
   win this, and can knock out this clause once and for all.   
      
   For those that do not know about this clause, it is only found   
   in the Regs, not the application. What it says to paraphrase   
   is this. That the Minister has the right (without your   
   consent) to send your private medical information onto any   
   agency they deem fit. And so they have as I predicted they   
   would.   
      
   The College of Physicians contacted my doctor and several of   
   my friends too. They said in a very politely worded letter to   
   my doc, asking him what the hell he was doing and was he not   
   aware of the colleges guidleines etc etc.   
      
   He wrote them back saying of course he was aware of it.   
   However he said since the College has deemed it fit to strip   
   chronic pain patients of the use of narcotics, and have also   
   deemed pain clinics that use injections such as lidocaine,   
   saline solution, or steroids into muscles, that these clinics   
   physicians must now have an anisthesiologist degree (4 year   
   course) to administer these injections, despite them using a   
   $100,000 state of the art ultrasound machine to assist in   
   proper placement of the injections. That the College has not   
   replaced any of these valuable tools with anything at all.   
      
   That he said he had to reluctantly become a somewhat expert in   
   alternative medicine, mainly cannabis. Therefore he not only   
   backs us 100% he also told the College to politely fuck off.   
   They can not do a thing to him as he is 70 and still   
   practicing. In my docs view this was a clear intimidation of   
   doctors.   
      
   It didn't work on my doc but it did on some friends docs. They   
   had their dosages reduced dramatically, and one high dosage   
   person was told he would not be getting any renewals in the   
   future. This is a travesty that must not be taken lightly, or   
   we will all be on 1-3 grams per day.   
      
   If you have been affected by this please contact me,   
   immediately with your story, so I can pass it on to the lead   
   investigator ASAP. Send me an email at   
   scott.mccluskey@telus.net. I anticipate a favorable ruling,   
   which with John's help we can then, launch legal action to   
   knock out this clause fast.   
      
   Please also inform your doctor if you are on a high dosage   
   that they may expect this letter. Educate your doctor of the   
   illegal purpose behind this letter and I may even be able to   
   supply you with my doctors response so they can send the same,   
   and we will all be singing out of the same hymn book, so to   
   speak. Thx.   
      
   Jct: So contact Bob Woolsey and come testify about the   
   "contact doctor" point I've raised but have no witness for.   
      
   This covers Point 14 for which I have only found 1 witness in   
   Ontario. The letter from the Doctor's Association would make a   
   great exhibit.   
      
   Wonder if my Ontario guy would testify by Skype? Lucky you,   
   whose doctor did not cave. Here's what I wrote yesterday   
   without a witness:   
      
       14) Under both regimes with personal production, Health   
       Canada takes time to make intimidating phone calls to   
       doctors trying to convince them to reduce their   
       prescriptions and complaints to the doctor's association   
       to pass along to the doctor! No problem when buying from   
       an L.P.   
       JCT: HC explained to one guy there are delays because they   
       leave messages for doctors who don't call them back.   
       Wonder if they got the "doctor's answering machine" and if   
       they did, what do they need to know? One question is: I   
       see a 45 grams, did you say 4 and the patient added the 5?   
       Neat eh? Just taking time to check while thousands get   
       unprocessed. So you should ask your doctor to write "forty   
       five 45" like on a check to avoid that stall. But their   
       discussions of the dosage are way off line. Plus HC calls   
       the doctors association to persuade them to harass the   
       doctor too.   
      
   JCT: It would be nice if Scott could arrange a car-load of   
   those patients tpeople whose doctors were pressured, cement   
   that point because it's so evil. Consider they could have   
   been processing months-long-delayed applications rather than   
   pressuring doctors to reduce dosages.   
      
   This card falling into our hand seems like serendipity. Plus   
   Scott, Jeff Harris on delays, can also testify to some of the   
   other 21 harms, no doubt. Scott, this is a great chance and   
   you've just covered one of my toughest issues.   
      
   Hey, Ontario guy, print this article for when you next see   
   your doctor who might cave. Plus I've got a flyer advertising   
   $50/gram prescriptions from a Dispensary so that's out.   
      
   We can discuss this at the Yahoogroups Gold Star Team:   
   https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/goldstarteam/info   
      
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