FEATURE
THE MEDICAL POST’S 2021
Power List
Power is inherently subjective. This
2021 Power List was put together the same way we did the last one just over five years ago: Medical Post journalists reached out to talk off-the-record to doctors in the power structure and asked them which doctors they think have power. What purpose does putting together a Power List serve? Well, it can help focus Canada’s community of doctors on the question of who among them does have
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power. What do those people believe is the way ahead for Canada’s healthcare system—and Canada’s doctors? A power list can influence doctors who are ambitious. And being ambitious, particularly when you are young, is a good thing. For those physicians looking ahead, it can help them figure out how the 30 doctors on our Power List got there. This 2021 Power List is about the
future as well: Some big-name Canadian doctors who have long had significant sway—such as Dr. Carolyn Bennett, federal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, and Dr. John Haggie, former CMA president and longtime health minister for Newfoundland and Labrador—have not been included. Here, now, is the Medical Post’s 2021 Power List. . . . — COLIN LESLIE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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Canadian doctors who have ‘sway’ — we’ve ranked the top 30