Quick Update

Sorry about lack of content of late, but long weekend and slow news week on the health care front. Have also heard my Muse and started a new...

No Bureaucrat Left Behind, Part Iii

Some sensible ideas around primary care for the next Minister of Health. While I would still argue that hospital overcrowding and the lack...

No Bureaucrat Left Behind, Part Ii

The Ontario government took its lead from no less than George W. Bush in crafting Patients First - a foolhardy, bureaucracy-laden reform ini...

Rebuttal - Yes, Doctors Run Private Businesses

A fellow blogging physician with a much larger following, Dr. Shawn Whatley, posted a provocative piece on his own blog arguing against the...

No Bureaucrat Left Behind, Part I

Ontario continues to move full-steam ahead with its plan to grind primary care reform to a screeching halt (now how's THAT for some mixi...

Not Quite Writer's Block

I'd love to get some suggestions around my next project. I've been entrusted with the history and documentation of a comp...

An Open Letter To The Next Minister Of Health

With the Trumpocalypse just about six months away, I thought I'd take a moment to give politicians some unsolicited but useful advice. ...

What Medicine Can't Fix

From the Public Health world, a discussion of how little anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology sometimes matter. ( This is adapted from ...