More than 150 MDs are challenging the authority of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) after it issued a statement threatening to sanction members for speaking out against COVID-19 public health orders. The doctors signed the Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth in opposition to the college’s move, stating that their “primary duty of care is not to the CPSO or any other authority, but to our patients.” “We’re a group of doctors who are very concerned about this college statement and policy that we really feel is putting patients’ safety at risk and is undermining basic medical ethics that we’ve been following throughout all of our careers,” Dr. Patrick Phillips, spokesperson for the declaration, said in an interview. The college’s statement, issued to members on April 30 via email and on Twitter, warned that physicians “have a professional responsibility to not communicate anti-vaccine, anti-masking, anti-distancing, and …