September

Authors of the article “Canadian endocrinologists’ views on growth hormone replacement therapy in adult survivors of pediatric brain tumors following achievement of final height” (BCMJ 2014;56:230-235) have corrected information pertaining to three of the authors’ names and credentials. The affected authors’ corrected information is: Haroon Hasan, BSc, MPH; A.

Maintaining healthy vision is an important health issue. For many, loss of vision is associated with loss of health, independence, dignity, access, and opportunities.

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In the editorial "Forms, lies, and advocacy" [BCMJ 2014;56:213], DRR neatly skewers those medically qualified racketeers who unscrupulously support their equally unscrupulous patients' disability claims. It is, of course, axiomatic that behind every fraudulent disability claim there exists an equally fraudulent medical certificate. After all, sans this authentication such swindles would have no legs at all on which to proceed.

We are writing in response to your editorial [BCMJ 2014;56:213] in which you claim some advocacy groups help their clients complete disability forms that are "dishonest and, frankly, fraudulent" and are trying to help their clients by "lying to have people collect unjustified income supplements."

I read your recent editorial [BCMJ 2014;56:213] with considerable interest because your experience has been almost identical with mine.
It seems to me that for those people who are truly disabled the disability pensions provided by the federal or provincial government are woefully inadequate. However, at the same time, there are clearly far too many people being awarded disability pensions on the basis of dubious evidence.