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Canadian Patient Fights for Freedom: That’s right, I’m back! It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything to post here. I suppose, like patient advocates...
Parents Erring on the Side of Caution: Vaccine Marketing and Informed Consent, Part II The questions I raised about Public Health’s grade 6 school-based immunization program led...
Parents Erring on the Side of Caution: Vaccine Marketing and Informed Consent, Part I After glancing over the immunization package my daughter brought home from school a number of...
5 Questions Patients Need to Ask About Unnecessary Care and Choosing Wisely Canada When I first heard about the report Unnecessary Care in Canada, I thought it was an April...
Surviving Canadian Medicare: Why Patients Must Fight for Freedom Not Funding Back in 1962, Saskatchewan patients and doctors rose up to defend their individual freedom against...
Universal Health Care and We the Patients Since my youth I have heard politicians glorify universal health care. They say it’s a...
Health Care Doesn’t Grow on Trees: Access Based on Need and Ability to Pay We all know that health care doesn’t grow on trees. Falsely advertising Medicare as...
Toronto Zoo Provides Patient-Centered Care A western lowland gorilla has his primary health care team at the Toronto Zoo to thank for finding...
Canadian Hospitals and the Political Circus of Public Health Care Overflowing emergency rooms, bed shortages, and hallway nursing are the norm in Canadian...
When Improving Your Health Changes Your Life: A Canadian Champ Shares Her Story Looking at her chiseled body it’s hard to believe that Melina Perron was once obese. Seven...
Physician-Assisted Suicide Unmasked I don’t know why pain and suffering are part of our human condition. I do know that as...
Time for Private MRIs in Saskatchewan I’ve invested a great deal of time and money into my health. I try to buy more fruits and...
The Unholy Alliance between Organized Medicine and Government: A Father’s Quest for Truth and Justice in Public Health Care The Kilby family had just lost an angel from their lives and unanswered questions about their...
Health Care Going to the Dogs as Alberta Judge Denies Charter Challenge Residents in Alberta can purchase private health insurance for medical services for their dogs,...
Socialized Medicine and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms The room is filled with law students. I take a seat at one of the long tables. Today’s...
One Minute Moral Case for Private Health Care in Canada [trafficplayer_skin padding: 16px 0 0 61px; margin: 0 auto; width: 519px; height: 322px;...
Supplying Canadian Drug Addicts with Drugs Under the Guise of Medical Science and Research Many academics, researchers and medical professional associations have worked diligently at...
Alberta Patients and the Wait for Justice Prohibited from purchasing private health insurance in Alberta, patients Darcy Allen and Richard...
Who says health care is a right? Efforts to blur the meaning of rights started gathering steam in the aftermath of WWII with a...
Patient Sues for Timely Access to Diagnostic Test Health authorities in the Canadian health care system often tell us that patients who really need...
Alberta Patients Challenge Government Monopoly on Health Care Two patient cases challenging the Alberta government’s monopoly on health care will be heard...
Canadian Patients Need to Wash Their Hands The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) celebrated its third annual STOP! Clean Your Hands...
Saskatchewan Government Denies Patient Out-of-Country Coverage for Medically Necessary Surgery What if a medical product that was supposed to help your condition ended up causing you harm? In...
Alberta Medical Association Says Contract Negotiations Not Just About Money Contract disputes and strikes are commonplace in universal health care systems throughout the...
Critical Incidents Raise Questions About the Standard of Care in Manitoba Hospitals Recent media coverage on critical incidents involving two patients in Manitoba is raising...
Teen Invents New Test for Detecting Pancreatic Cancer A 15-year-old boy from Maryland has invented a new test for detecting pancreatic cancer in its...
Of Hearts and Minds and Medicare Proponents of Medicare incessantly tug at our heartstrings. It’s a constant distraction...
The 10 Million Dollar Question About Queue-jumping and Canadian Health Care How does a request to examine the concerns of doctors facing intimidation within a public health...
Coalition Shines Light on Seniors’ Rights Issues in Canadian Health Care Lois Sampson, founder of Seniors at Risk, is speaking out about some of the issues in long-term...
It’s Time to Take Back Your Health Care Today our health care remains a hostage of politicians and bureaucrats who use it as a bargaining...
The Canadian Identity and Medicare Today, I’m thinking about the Town of Gander in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador....
Towards a New Canadian Health Care System We already know the Canadian health care system is failing. Medicare supporters will tell you...
Medicare Fifty Years Later: A Celebration of Intentions and Promises This month Medicare supporters are celebrating the anniversary of one of the most widely...
Universal Health Care: Who says it’s the fairest of them all? Recent media coverage of the case of a young boy in Ontario is causing some Canadians to question...
Canada’s First Healthy Me Week My family decided to recognize Canada’s first Healthy Me Week (June 4 to 10) by walking to...
Going Abroad for Medical Treatment: Canadian MS Patient Experiences Liberation Katrina Baier was working as a health and fitness consultant when she was diagnosed with...
The Path to Patient-Centred Care The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health website has a diagram showing the ten steps patients take on...
The Charter Connection: drug addicts, prostitutes, and patients If you’re a drug addict who wants a clean needle and a supervised injection site where you...
Health Care Bingo in Saskatchewan The government of Saskatchewan is choosing 86 patients with multiple sclerosis from a pool of more...
Year End Site Review 2011 The most frequently accessed information on the site this year indicates a growing interest in...
It’s Time to Put Medicare to Sleep My body starts convulsing; my blood pressure continues to drop. I’m exhausted and weak. This...
Breaking the Waiting List Silence I know how difficult it can be for a patient trying to navigate our public health care system in...
Is Hallway Medicine Part of Our Canadian Identity? One of Saskatchewan’s former premiers, Roy Romanow, recently spoke out about the federal...
Socialized Medicine and Harm Reduction for the Rest of Us One of the dangers of socialized medicine is that population health and minimizing public health...
Patient-Centred Health Care Doesn’t Require Free Parking An editorial on Parking-centred health care recently appeared in the Canadian Medical Association...
A Patient Safety Advocate Talks About the Bureaucracy in His Health Region Charles Cruden volunteers much of his time to advocating on issues of concern to seniors....
Patient Safety Advocates Talk About the Bureaucracy in Canadian Health Care Sisters Leslie Worthington and Val Lee had many questions surrounding the medical care their...
A Patient Safety Advocate Talks About Transparency and Accountability in Canadian Health Care When it comes to issues of patient safety, Alice Little isn’t afraid to ask tough questions....
Patient Safety Advocates Talk About Access to Health Information Patient safety advocates Mimi Raglan and Blake Taylor know firsthand the importance of being able...
Canadian Patient Safety Week: Straight Talk From Patient Safety Advocates Among Us Canadian Patient Safety Week starts today and I thought it would be a good time to share videos...
