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The Canadian Identity and Medicare Today, I’m thinking about the Town of Gander in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The people...
Towards a New Canadian Health Care System We already know the Canadian health care system is failing. Medicare supporters will tell you it’s...
Medicare Fifty Years Later: A Celebration of Intentions and Promises This month Medicare supporters are celebrating the anniversary of one of the most widely recognized social...
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 the...
Canada’s First Healthy Me Week My family decided to recognize Canada’s first Healthy Me Week (June 4 to 10) by walking to our local...
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 relapsing-remitting...
The Path to Patient-Centred Care The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health website has a diagram showing the ten steps patients take on their path...
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 can shoot...
Health Care Bingo in Saskatchewan The government of Saskatchewan is choosing 86 patients with multiple sclerosis from a pool of more than 650...
Year End Site Review 2011 The most frequently accessed information on the site this year indicates a growing interest in the big...
It’s Time to Put Medicare to Sleep My body starts convulsing; my blood pressure continues to drop. I’m exhausted and weak. This is it I...
Breaking the Waiting List Silence I know how difficult it can be for a patient trying to navigate our public health care system in search of...
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 care costs...
Patient-Centred Health Care Doesn’t Require Free Parking An editorial on Parking-centred health care recently appeared in the Canadian Medical Association Journal....