An oncologist in Canada goes off:
Calling it an “absolute disgrace,” the head of a cancer group says Ontario’s restricted access to PET scans is not only forcing some medical residents to relocate for training but it is also hampering patient care.“That’s an absolute disgrace coming from Ontario,” said James Gowing, a hematologist-oncologist based in Cambridge, Ont., and board chairman of the Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada.
“I’ve been embarrassed a number of times to tell people I’m from Ontario and this would be another one.”
Dr. Gowing’s comments follow a Globe and Mail story that revealed how the University of Western Ontario must send its nuclear-medicine residents to the United States and elsewhere for three months to train on a Positron Emission Tomography machine.
