President’s Message
Dr. Carol Leet,
President 2015
photo: D.W.Dorken
E
mpowerment. That is the word that I
think best describes how this College
demonstrated its commitment to the
public interest in 2015.
Throughout the year, we found ways to empower members of the public in a number of
different ways – by providing more information to
enable informed decision-making; by requesting
an expansion of the opportunities for their voices
to be heard; and by protecting their right to access
health-care.
Our desire and commitment to be transparent
– and therefore accountable – included making
available and accessible multiple kinds of information: about individual physicians, about facilities,
and about CPSO processes and their outcomes. I
am proud to say that transparency will continue to
be central to all of our activities.
In 2015, we continued our ground-breaking
work to protect and support patients from the
sexual abuse of physicians. For example, we
proposed a number of amendments to the legislation. One of our requests, if accepted, will provide
more opportunities for a patient’s own voice to
be heard within the College’s investigations and
discipline process. Specifically, we want to expand
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