1. Brian Day, FRCS, FRCS, was born on January 29,1947 and is an orthopedic surgeon and health researcher in Canada, a past president of the Canadian Medical Association, and a prominent sometimes controversial advocate for privatization of Canada's health system.
Brian Day was the eldest of four children in a family with strong Labour views.
Brian 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.
Brian Day attended the Liverpool Institute, the same high school attended by Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
Brian Day has a permanent scar on a finger from a knife fight when he was 10 years old.
Brian Day entered medical school at age 18 at the University of Manchester, from where he graduated in 1970.
Brian Day obtained his medical degrees, MB ChB from the University of Manchester, and post-graduate qualifications in both internal medicine and general surgery.
In July 1973, Brian Day moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
In 1979, Brian Day received the Canadian Orthopaedic Association's Edouard Samson Award for outstanding orthopaedic research in Canada.
Brian Day is regarded as being instrumental in the introduction of arthroscopic joint surgery in Canada.
Brian Day is a founding member and was 2004 president of the Arthroscopy Association of North America, being the second Canadian elected to that position.
Brian Day was the first orthopaedic surgeon in the 148-year history of the CMA to be elected president.
In 2015, Brian Day was temporarily announced as the president-elect for Doctors of BC, the provincial medical association in British Columbia, because of a win by a single vote difference.
Brian Day then lost the subsequent run-off election in June 2015 to Alan Ruddiman by 603 votes after the publicity about the single-vote win escalated participation to the highest turnout by physician members of the association.
Brian Day is a member of the editorial board for the BC Medical Journal.
Brian Day has argued many Canadians are being hypocritical towards private healthcare, because 70 per cent of Canadians buy healthcare insurance.
Brian Day cites the Canada Health Act of 1984 being responsible for rationing of care that has resulted in over a million Canadians suffering on wait lists, and to more than 5 million without a doctor.
Brian Day is a frequent spokesman for the topic with news media and submits position papers with government.
In May 2009, Brian Day drew criticism after he was shown in a series of television ads for a US lobby group called Conservatives for Patients' Rights that opposed President Obama's health care reforms.
Brian Day appeared on the television program BNN on May 11,2009, to clarify that he issued a letter distancing himself from the ad.
Brian Day pointed out that Obamacare was based on private insurance and private delivery, the opposite of what many Canadians believe in.
In 1995, Brian Day founded Cambie Surgery Centre, a for-profit Vancouver clinic.
Brian Day is the facility's medical director, and one of its 40-plus shareholders.
Brian Day has said he decided to set up the Cambie Surgical Centre, which is non-union, after government funding decreased in the mid-90s cut his operating time at UBC from 17 hours a week to about six.
Brian Day succeeded in convincing notable Vancouverites such as the late Milan Ilich and Jack Poole, as well as Kip Woodward, and 19 others including Jim Wyse and Hugh Magee, to commit $100,000 each with the remainder financed by the Royal Bank of Canada.