SPEAKER SERIES -The Price of Advocacy: Can We Afford It?

The story of one physician's experience in simply trying to do his job to the best of his ability as an advocate for his patients in a Northern Canadian town

Dr. JOHN O’CONNOR
Community Physician (former Medical Examiner for Fort Chipewyan), Northern Alberta

Tuesday 26 January 2010
12:30pm to 2:00pm in HNES 140

Dr John O’Connor is a family physician who bravely raised concerns about possible link between Alberta’s oilsands mega-development and cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, a remote aboriginal community situated on the northern shore of Lake Athabasca. He was medical examiner for the region of Fort Chipewyan from 2000 to 2007. In 2007, Health Canada physicians laid complaints of professional misconduct against O’Connor with the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr O’Connor was cleared of all charges.

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