Practising Social Accountability: The Social Accountability Working Group has prepared a CFP commentaryon practising social accountability in family medicine.
This article is the first of four that will explore how social accountability can be put into action at the micro (in practice), meso (in the community) and macro (society) levels.
Fun Fact of the Month
The House of Commons, under the guidance of new Speaker The Hon. Geoff Regan, is back in action. In what has become a recent tradition, the Speaker of the House of Commons selects a "Speaker's Scotch" that can be purchased at the parliamentary restaurant and even gets its own label. The health benefits of scotch whiskey have been promoted by connoiseurs for centuries.
Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying: The House of Commons and the Senate have established a Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying. Committee members have been announced and include co-chairs, the Hon. Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie and MP Robert Oliphant.
The committee held its first meeting on January 18.
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