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Home > Re: Status quo--not an option
Issue: BCMJ, vol. 48, No. 4, May 2006, [1] Page 163 Letters
By: G. Frank O. Tyers, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FACC, ABS, ABTS [2]

In his recent editorial, Dr Wilson states that Canada and North Korea are the last two countries trying to deny sick people a choice. Surely Cuba can’t have moved ahead of us?

I would appreciate knowing if I have been wrong in telling people that Canada and two brutal communist dictatorships alone share similar prohibitions of freedom of choice.
—G.F.O. Tyers, MD
Vancouver

Yes, Cuba now has a parallel private system. —ED

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