The Death And Life Of Canadian Medicine, Part Vi

Tending to our many, often self-inflicted wounds. Previously: Part I , Part II , Part III , Part IV , Part V Any essay on health care re...

The Death And Life Of Canadian Medicine, Part Iii

You can't create a job description without an understanding of the modern job demands. Previously in this series: Part I , Part II W...

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...

It's Time To Panic About Family Medicine

I could just cut and past my thoughts on this topic from last year, but where's the fun in that? The Canadian Resident Matching Serv...

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. ...

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 ...