Ontario Ministry of Health backgrounder eclipses history of sensitivities behind debate about environmental medicine

TitleOntario Ministry of Health backgrounder eclipses history of sensitivities behind debate about environmental medicine
Publication TypeNews Release
AuthorsGlynWilliams J
Date Published05/1994
Year of Publication1994
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Despite warnings in official reports, from medical educators and organized medicine, the Ontario Minsitry of Health continued to equate the consideration of the assertions of doctors of environmental medicine with the centuries old needs, rights and history of persons with sensitivities. This approach resulted in thousands of preventable deaths and assisted a fringe group of professionals in appropriating the voice of persons whose health complaint had long been known to science, medicine and civil health authorities. Some day someone should study how a long-existing, well known problem for which there was a publicly insured method of diagnosis could be eclipsed behind the irresponsible assertions of a small group of physicians!

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