by Heather | Jan 2, 2011 | Canadian Health Care Information
Many Canadians have shared their health care stories with us this year. Each of these stories provides valuable insight into the realities facing patients and their families. All of them highlight the need for changes to our health care system. We encourage you to...
by Heather | Dec 21, 2010 | Canadian Health Care Information
Canadian patients wait on lists for appointments with specialists, diagnostic tests, treatments, and surgeries. Over the years, government has spent billions of dollars on special initiatives and projects directed at reducing wait times. In 2004, federal, provincial...
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 25, 2010 | Canadian Health Care Information
The contract between Dr. Stephen Duckett and Alberta Health Services is now terminated. Dr. Duckett came from Australia to assume the position of president and chief executive officer of the health superboard in March 2009. On November 19, 2010 after an...
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...
