Bill 50 Jeopardizes Public Safety and Patient Rights
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We, the patients of Ontario, believe that the current Bill 50 (Traditional Chinese Medicine Act) will lead to a public health disaster. There are 3 main issues that are being ignored:
1) over 140,000 acupuncture-laymen are exempt from acupuncture regulation for no reason,
2) no safety requirements for fake acupuncture (anatomical acupuncture) which uses the public as guinea pigs,
3) the TCM-based acupuncture profession has been downgraded to a modality which eliminates the opportunity for the public to receive quality service.
Unreasonable Exemptions:
Bill 50 (TCM Act), which passed in Ontario on Dec 20, 2006, legalized over 140,000 acupuncture-laymen (such as chiropodists, massage therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, 2-day-course addiction treatment personnel, etc.) to perform fake acupuncture without any meridian training requirements, which is the foundation of real acupuncture.
They are performing anatomical acupuncture which is based on anatomy and nerves. It is needle therapy, NOT acupuncture, according to the Dec. 1996 HPRAC Report.
Patients are used as Guinea Pigs for Fake Acupuncture:
They do not have any idea of the side effects from meridian damage from fake acupuncture. This will lead to hundreds of ailments and symptoms which are hard to diagnose or treat with Western medical methods.
Patient Rights are Jeopardized by Downgrading Acupuncture Profession to a Modality:
In addition, Bill 50 (TCM Act) disqualified well-trained TCM-based acupuncture practitioners.
Many members of our group have been cured by real acupuncture from incurable conditions such as: Rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, allergies, migraines, diabetes, Lyme disease, infertility, disc herniation, cancers (such as breast cancer, rectal cancer, melanoma, lymphoma), etc, etc.
These results can NOT be obtained with needle therapy, and patients lose their chance for survival or a cure.
Needy patients in hospitals, medical clinics and nursing homes do not have access to real acupuncture. If any staff member performs anatomical acupuncture, well-trained TCM-based acupuncturists are not allowed to treat patients on the premises. Where are the rights of patients?
Patients deserve to be treated by qualified TCM-based acupuncturists instead of being treated by acupuncture-laymen.
Our Requests:
1. Remove Section 19 from Bill 50, TCM Act, 2006, which exempts other health care practitioners to perform acupuncture. It downgrades acupuncture to a modality (needle therapy) standards, which jeopardizes patients rights.
2. Create a new Controlled Act to regulate acupuncture as a profession, separate from the regulation of needle therapy (anatomical acupuncture). This will enable patients to identify who performs real acupuncture, and avoid being a guinea pig of fake acupuncture.
3. Amend Bill 50, TCM Act by providing definitions and a scope of practice for acupuncture and TCM, so that patients will understand the professions of acupuncture and TCM.
1) over 140,000 acupuncture-laymen are exempt from acupuncture regulation for no reason,
2) no safety requirements for fake acupuncture (anatomical acupuncture) which uses the public as guinea pigs,
3) the TCM-based acupuncture profession has been downgraded to a modality which eliminates the opportunity for the public to receive quality service.
Unreasonable Exemptions:
Bill 50 (TCM Act), which passed in Ontario on Dec 20, 2006, legalized over 140,000 acupuncture-laymen (such as chiropodists, massage therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, 2-day-course addiction treatment personnel, etc.) to perform fake acupuncture without any meridian training requirements, which is the foundation of real acupuncture.
They are performing anatomical acupuncture which is based on anatomy and nerves. It is needle therapy, NOT acupuncture, according to the Dec. 1996 HPRAC Report.
Patients are used as Guinea Pigs for Fake Acupuncture:
They do not have any idea of the side effects from meridian damage from fake acupuncture. This will lead to hundreds of ailments and symptoms which are hard to diagnose or treat with Western medical methods.
Patient Rights are Jeopardized by Downgrading Acupuncture Profession to a Modality:
In addition, Bill 50 (TCM Act) disqualified well-trained TCM-based acupuncture practitioners.
Many members of our group have been cured by real acupuncture from incurable conditions such as: Rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, allergies, migraines, diabetes, Lyme disease, infertility, disc herniation, cancers (such as breast cancer, rectal cancer, melanoma, lymphoma), etc, etc.
These results can NOT be obtained with needle therapy, and patients lose their chance for survival or a cure.
Needy patients in hospitals, medical clinics and nursing homes do not have access to real acupuncture. If any staff member performs anatomical acupuncture, well-trained TCM-based acupuncturists are not allowed to treat patients on the premises. Where are the rights of patients?
Patients deserve to be treated by qualified TCM-based acupuncturists instead of being treated by acupuncture-laymen.
Our Requests:
1. Remove Section 19 from Bill 50, TCM Act, 2006, which exempts other health care practitioners to perform acupuncture. It downgrades acupuncture to a modality (needle therapy) standards, which jeopardizes patients rights.
2. Create a new Controlled Act to regulate acupuncture as a profession, separate from the regulation of needle therapy (anatomical acupuncture). This will enable patients to identify who performs real acupuncture, and avoid being a guinea pig of fake acupuncture.
3. Amend Bill 50, TCM Act by providing definitions and a scope of practice for acupuncture and TCM, so that patients will understand the professions of acupuncture and TCM.
565 Signatures
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Gwo-Wuu Shyu
- Comments
- Acupuncture Doctor
- City; Province
- Toronto, ON
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Deanna van den Dries
- Comments
- meridian damage is real
- City; Province
- Toronto, ON
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Jane van den Dries
- City; Province
- St. Catharines, ON
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stephen Lau
- Comments
- City; Province
- North york , ON
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Mary Shyu
- City; Province
- Scarborough Ontario
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Andre Rekai
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Mary McNeil
- City; Province
- Whitby, Ontario
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Jim McNeil
- City; Province
- Whitby, Ontario
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Lung Chen
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Ian Godfrey
- Comments
- This Bill is dangerous and is not taking into considertaion the safety of the patients . How can you outlaw the 'experts' of this type of treatment???...it is ridiculous. Western training is a fraction of the training TCM are put through.
- City; Province
- Toronto, ON
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Teresa Ho
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Stella McEwen
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Angela So
- City; Province
- Ontario
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Steve Wong
- City; Province
- ,Ontario
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Jane Laurin
- City; Province
- Kincardine, Ontario
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Joan E Simmons
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Rob Mcneil
- City; Province
- oshawa
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Beverley Ohashi
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Ken Hills
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Chantelle McNeil
- City; Province
- Ontario
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Peter M. Lee
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Dianne Crosetta
- City; Province
- Port Elgin, Ontario
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stephen yu
- City; Province
- scarborough, ontario
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Kelly McGillivray
- City; Province
- Ontario
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Rick Kalyn
- City; Province
- Toronto, Ontario
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Margo Brown
- City; Province
- Ontario
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Tina Bishai
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Amanda Mcneil
- City; Province
- oshawa
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Ted McEwen
- Comments
- TCM should be recognized as a medical treatment.
- City; Province
- Ontario
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Pat Gupta
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David Wong
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Chao-fu Wang
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Anna Morrison
- City; Province
- Kincardine, Ontario
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K Walser
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Larry Fisher
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Fran McCarthy
- Comments
- This is just amazing to me. I have been meeting with my MPP for twenty-five years on preventive health issues. I think it's time with the state of the health care that the government got it's act together on this. You take things that have some little benign ingredient in it off the shelf that really helps a person like my Metagenics calcium and yet the pharmacetical companies continue to poison us with their products.
- City; Province
- Kincardine Ontario
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David Shyu
- Comments
- One chance to make first impression of Acupuncture a good one
- City; Province
- Ontario
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Donna Gibson
- City; Province
- Small town - Rural Ontario
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Stephen Hanniman
- City; Province
- Tiverton, Ontario
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Laurie Daniel
- City; Province
- Kincardine, Ontario
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Kristy McGillivray
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Ms. Chris Rody
- Comments
- the only person that i would let put acuputure needles is me, is someone that has been trained properly with TCM. Would you let a so called doctor with 2 months training operate on you . I THINK NOT. So then WHY would you let someone put needles in another person without sufficient trainng to understand the damage that they could do. As the Health Minister and MP``s you have a responsiblity to the people. Please reconsider this Bill.
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Ron W. Coristine
- Comments
- Keep the science and art of real accupuncture
- City; Province
- Tiverton, Ontario
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Eric Wong
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Sandy Nelson
- City; Province
- Kincardine, ON
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Luanne Hayes
- City; Province
- Port Elgin, Ontario
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michael zettel
- City; Province
- kincardine, ontario
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bill lewies
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wei amanda gan
- Comments
- we do not need a fake acupuncture in ontario
- City; Province
- North York
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Maurice Close
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- I personally have received great benefit in the last 2 years from TCM acupuncture. A few years ago I also received much harm from acupuncture that was administered by one who I now believe was an unqualified acupuncturist.
- City; Province
- Ontario
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