by Heather | Feb 9, 2024 | Patients
It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything to post here. I suppose, like patient advocates before me, I grew tired of trying to convince people that they really needed to start paying attention to what was happening in Canadian health care. I tried to help...
by Heather | Oct 1, 2018 | Canadian Health Care Information
The questions I raised about Public Health’s grade 6 school-based immunization program led me down an interesting path of discovery. I became much more aware of the marketing tactics aimed at securing parental consent for the use of various vaccines on healthy...
by Heather | Apr 27, 2018 | Canadian Health Care Information
After glancing over the immunization package my daughter brought home from school a number of questions popped into my mind. The fact sheet included a brief overview of the diseases the vaccines are meant to prevent, but nothing about the prevalence of these diseases...
by Heather | Jun 26, 2017 | Access
When I first heard about the report Unnecessary Care in Canada, I thought it was an April Fools’ joke. I have yet to meet a patient troubled by too much access to medical care in Canada. Trying to get an appointment to see your family doctor, if you’re...
by Heather | Jan 23, 2017 | Canadian Health Care Information, Health Care Legislation
Back in 1962, Saskatchewan patients and doctors rose up to defend their individual freedom against socialism’s stealthy constitutional attack. In the end, legislation passed forcing them to surrender their freedom to government control and the doctor/patient...
