Was it apathy or ideology that prompted doctors to elect controversial physician Dr. Brian Day as Doctors of B.C. president to oversee issues of concern to the province’s MDs?
The group formerly known as the BC Medical Association now has a spokesperson who is currently taking the province to court over access to private medicine.
Day has said he won’t take the post until the lawsuit is settled, but his election suggests a majority of his colleagues support his view that patients should have access to private clinics if they don’t wish to wait in the public system.
Only 20% of the roughly 10,000 eligible doctors voted, so apathy could be at play, and Day has helmed the Canadian Medical Association before, so he has experience in such executive posts.
But for the average person who can’t get a family doctor and who couldn’t pay for private care, Day’s election isn’t exactly encouraging.
