Fort Chipewyan health board dismisses doctor who raised alarm about Oil Sands cancer ratesEnvironmental | 206733 hits | May 15 5:31 pm | Posted by: N_Fiddledog Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Basically...you know that one about how the oilsands were giving the natives cancer?
Didn't happen.
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.
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.
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 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.