As if we didn’t already have enough on our plates, the Toronto Star now wants us to add: serve as judge and jury when doctors mess up to our list of things to do. In a recent editorial, The Star suggested that “backroom deals between errant doctors and Ontario’s medical watchdog” (a.k.a. the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario), are depriving patients of “potentially useful” information and keeping the public in the dark about the mistakes made by physicians.
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