Canadian Medical Practitioner's Actions Can Cause Significant Patient Harm

Canadian Medical Practitioner's Actions Awards will be awarded each year to draw attention to ten examples of the trauma of medical harm in Canada. Everyone makes mistakes, however, with a unique program in Canada, $520+ M taxpayer dollars are transferred yearly in a provincially funded program to the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), with a war chest of $5.4 billion to defend health care practitioners accused of medical errors at all costs, resulting in continued medical distress.

CMPA lawyers use "a scorched-earth policy, a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy". Patients are not the enemy, they are the wounded. These tactics add to and prolong emotional and financial trauma for all patients who are left with no recourse for corrective care.

"Our organization does not consist in the fights we have put up or in the open success we have had but rather in the silent influence we have swayed against litigants... These litigants have found out that our Counsel stands ready to accept service of the writ and your Executive stands ready with a bank account to furnish the sinews of war. Dozens and dozens of cases have thus been strangled at their inception and have disappeared like dew off the grass. This feature, gentleman, is the strength and glory of your association."

— The core values of the CMPA are illustrated very clearly by the founder who stated in 1919

Is this the culture and mission of an organisation that deserves taxpayer support?