Brian Day
| Dr. Brian Day | |
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Dr. Brian Day speaking as president of the CMA in 2008.
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| Born |
January 29, 1947 Liverpool, England |
| Nationality | English-Canadian |
| Education |
University of Manchester University of British Columbia |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Surgeon |
| Field | Orthopedics |
| Institutions | Cambie Surgery Centre UBC Hospital |
| Notable prizes | Edouard Samson Award |
Brian Day MRCP (UK), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (C), (born January 29, 1947) is an orthopedic surgeon and health researcher in Canada, a past president of the Canadian Medical Association, and a prominent sometimes controversial advocate for patient access to a hybrid of Canada's health system.
As the founder and medical director of a private clinic Cambie Surgery Centre and Specialist Referral Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dr. Day is a spokesperson for a high-profile, multi-year and ongoing lawsuit against the provincial government, Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia (Medical Services Commission). that is sometimes cited publicly as 'The Day Case'.
Day was raised in Toxteth, a working-class area of post-war Liverpool, England. He was the eldest of four children in a family with strong Labour views. Both his mother and father were socialists. Day credited his personal shift from the political left to the political center-right by his disenchantment with the British labour movement's jurisdictional inertia and contributions to inefficiency in health care.
Day attended the Liverpool Institute, the same high school attended by Paul McCartney and George Harrison. His family's neighbourhood could be tough. Day has a permanent scar on a finger from a knife fight when he was 10 years old. His father, a pharmacist, was killed in 1981 by hooligans looking for drugs during riots in the neighbourhood. The possible contribution of misdiagnosis by British doctors for the death of Day's mother in 1986 is cited as his dissatisfaction with the British health system.
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