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, Taxes, Government: What's The Endgame? The corporate tax dustup is the just the latest in a long string of conflicts over the place of doctors in Canadian society. It dates back d...
Why Medicine Can't Be Managed If twenty-odd years of administrative meddling should have taught us anything, it's that all the plans in the world for medicine and hea...
Medicine And The Limits Of Politics The obligations on the medical profession do not extend to the ideology or platform of any political party. It's a big week for the C...
Frustrated, Incorporated Put me out of my misery. At the dawn of the millennium, when I finished my medical pelatihan and entered independent practice, I was st...
A New Day For The Oma! Don't you dare be sour! Clap and feel the power! It's tempting to declare the general meeting of the Ontario Medical Associatio...
Cancer: The Duduk Perkara Is Prevalence Success is taking its toll. By most measures, we do a magnificent job as a society with cancer. Over the past 30-plus years, the overwhe...
A Theory Of Relativity, Part Iii When doctors' work can't easily be compared, and how the government fits into the picture. In the last post , I went over wha...
A Theory Of Relativity, Part Ii First principles to address doctor income relativity. The last post touched on some of the major problems with deciding how much docto...
A Theory Of Relativity, Part I A look at one of the most contentious issues in all of health care. In my early days of practice, working ER shifts in Atlantic Canada,...