"Parsons, chairman of the CMA's Committee on Ethics for 10 years, announced at last year's annual meeting that he had held the post long enough, and stepped down. The Halifax fami­ly physician took with him a decade of experience that no other Canadian doctor can match. For 10 years, Parsons was the doctor reporters phoned when they needed a quote about medical ethics. He was also the doctor on the hot seat when he presented his committee's report during 10 CMA annual meetings, and during a period when new ethical issues, such ~s the treat­ment of AIDS patients, appeared with great regularity but little warning."--excerpt from introduction.