What Do We Want From Primary Care, Part Iii What's a government to do, once it knows what it wants to do? Primary care reform was never going to be easy. No matter what order the...
What Do We Want From Primary Care, Part Ii It's Christmas time, so why not put our wish list in writing? As I argued in my last post , reforming Canada's primary health car...
What Do We Want From Primary Care, Part I Forget the plans and even the implementation plans. There's a long list of priorities, and those priorities have yet to be prioritized. ...
Doctors' Dirty Laundry Foul language, bad online manners, and lousy choices of words...finally a topic I can lend some expertise to. Doctors are no strangers to ...
No Going Back Too much of our thinking in health care is at least a half-dozen points-of-no-return ago. A forensic psychiatrist. A radiation physicist. ...
When The Doctor Has Pain I'm now walking a second mile in another man's moccasins, and it's no more enjoyable than my first mile. Many doctors cringe w...
No Bureaucrat Left Behind, Redux Just when you thought home care couldn't make any less sense. About a year and a half ago, I wrote a series of posts outlining...
Retail Therapy The cliches of health care policymakers have entered a new kala of absurd. A lot of meaningless jargon is tossed around in hospitals and ...
Fiddling While Canada Berns The mystifying infatuation with Bernie Sanders played out this past weekend in a spectacle bordering on farce. Canadians are no differe...
The Doctor's Daily Dram - 2017 Update! No policy stuff this time, but doing a public service by providing critical knowledge for doctors nonetheless, especially to those MDs new t...
Agony, Anguish, And Armageddon, Part Ii Is there any way to stave off a system-wide apocalypse? In my last post , I pointed out that for all the attention given to #taxfairness...