The Death And Life Of Canadian Medicine, Part I From Ground Zero back to Square One. Medical schools churning out record numbers of newly minted doctors, while clinics in the neediest co...
The Gordian Knot It's one thing to lay blame on the "system". It's another to get a handle on what's wrong with said system, and come u...
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 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...
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,...
A Superior Oma? Wallopin' Websnappers! More news from the Ontario Medical Association? Issue 700 of Amazing Spider-Man contains one of the ...
Not So Green Pastures In The Land Of Green Gables Canada's doctors would do well to take a close look at PEI for reasons having nothing to do with a golf getaway. Canada's Marit...
Early Christmas For Ontario's Doctors? Yuletide surprise from the Minister of Health! With only 11 sleeps left...what could it be?!? Right around the time most of us were pol...
So You're Saying We Need A New Approach? The wrong answers to the wrong problems continue to be brought forward. It's been two weeks since Ontario's doctors sent a ...