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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (206429)	10/18/2006 1:19:41 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I am in Niagara, in Ontario we have a real problem with a lack of Doctors. In Niagara it is particularly bad. The Hospital in Kitchener, is now the first hospital to have private service on it's ER. The load on the er's has ballooned because of cutbacks on training doctors 15 years or so ago. The Ontario government will allow a hospital in southwestern Ontario to hire an employee of a private company to temporarily head its emergency room, but says it's not comfortable with the decision. The Cambridge Memorial Hospital's board of governors voted unanimously Wednesday evening to hire a doctor from Med-Emerg International Inc. as the interim chief of emergency medicine. 'If I've got to choose between a privately funded doctor and no doctor, then I'd take the privately funded doctor obviously' -Premier Dalton McGuintyCritics see the hiring as a form of privatization. Premier Dalton McGuinty voiced opposition to the plan, but acknowledged it is necessary to address an emergency doctor shortage. "If I've got to choose between a privately funded doctor and no doctor, then I'd take the privately funded doctor obviously," McGuinty told reporters. But Health Minister George Smitherman later said that the premier's comment did not mean he supports two-tier health care, but sees the decision as a temporary stop-gap measure. cbc.ca