The Death And Life Of Canadian Medicine, Part Ii The 1990s brought more than Howard Stern and the Spice Girls to Canada. The first post in this series laid out the mendasar questions tha...
Leaderitis It's time to do away with another obsession that prevents meaningful improvements in health care. Who doesn't love a good leade...
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...
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 ...
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...
Agony, Anguish, And Armageddon, Part I Most of what's in the news about health care is a sideshow. But there's a disaster brewing under the surface. I love reading ...
It's Time To Panic About Long Term Care No amount of micromanagement will prevent the collapse of the acute care system unless radical action is taken. The health care syste...
Speaking For The Dead If a suicide can't shake the medical pembinaan system into action, nothing will. The motto of the Coroner's Office is, "we sp...
A Few Bad Apples? I've been working a locum this month, hence less blogging than normal. But I couldn't avoid sharing my 2 cents on this one. Anyone...
A Dangerous Idea: A General Medical Licence Because I can't afford to attend the Family Medicine Forum on a Coroner/househusband/author's salary. The Family Medicine Fo...
Does Family Medicine Have A Future? Part Iv Don't prescribe the solution until you understand the problem. As I noted in my last post , Family Medicine is in deep trouble in C...
Does Family Medicine Have A Future? Part Iii I over-tweeted on this topic today, and was advised to write a blog post (as penance?). Almost a year ago, I composed some thoughts a...
How Does This Matter? Time away from the daily grind of practice has given me time to reflect. The results of that reflection are disquieting. People are sur...