by Heather | Sep 9, 2009 | Canadian Health Care Information
Some people fancy all health care debates to be a case of Canadian Health Care vs. American. Not so. According to the World Health Organization’s ranking of the world’s health systems, neither Canada nor the USA ranks in the top 25. Improving the Canadian...
by Heather | Sep 8, 2009 | Canadian Health Care Stories
Christmas 1999, 50 year old Toronto science teacher, Adolfo Flora, was diagnosed with liver cancer – the result of a tainted blood transfusion that gave him Hepatitis C. He needed a partial liver transplant, but his doctors told him that a deceased-donor liver...
by Heather | Sep 2, 2009 | Canadian Health Care Stories
Shirley Healey was diagnosed with mesenteric ischemia. The main artery to her intestines was blocked, and she’d lost over 50 pounds waiting for medical care. Her vascular surgeon, Robert Ellett, said “The last patient I had with exactly the same problem,...
by Heather | Sep 2, 2009 | Canadian Health Care Stories
On January 2, 2006, Lindsay McCreith was suffering seizures. After waiting 7 hours in emergency, a CT scan showed a brain tumor. McCreith was told he’d have to wait 4.5 months for an MRI scan to find out if the tumour was malignant. That’s when he went...
