by Heather | Oct 31, 2011 | Patients
Canadian Patient Safety Week starts today and I thought it would be a good time to share videos about patient safety issues in our health care system. I don’t mean the usual wash your hands message directed at our health care providers. What I mean is straight...
by Heather | Dec 20, 2010 | Access
The Canadian government talks a good talk when it comes to preventative health care but let’s face it, in order to be preventative it has to be timely. My husband Cameron lost his father to esophageal cancer last year. With a family history of cancer and...
by Heather | Nov 15, 2010 | Canadian Health Care Information
The Globe and Mail newspaper is featuring a series of articles on Canadian health care. I find the online comments to these articles most interesting. Many people are defending our current health care system based on the political promises of Medicare and not the...
by Heather | Oct 19, 2010 | Canadian Health Care Information
Results of the latest Nanos Poll show that health care is once again the top national issue for Canadians. If you have ever taken a good hard look at the Canadian health care system you can understand why. Despite political promises and annual injections of federal...
by Heather | Oct 10, 2010 | Canadian Health Care Information
The CTV news program W5 recently aired “Silent Treatment” a story about the struggles encountered by two Newfoundland families trying to access medical information following the death of a family member. I believe many Canadian patients and their families...