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Year End Site Review 2010 Many Canadians have shared their health care stories with us this year. Each of these stories provides...
Survey: Long Wait Times in Canadian Health Care Canadian patients wait on lists for appointments with specialists, diagnostic tests, treatments, and...
If All You Want for Christmas Is an Endoscopy The Canadian government talks a good talk when it comes to preventative health care but let’s face it,...
One Expensive Cookie: CEO of Alberta Health Services Loses Job The contract between Dr. Stephen Duckett and Alberta Health Services is now terminated. Dr. Duckett came...
Reality Check on Canadian Health Care The Globe and Mail newspaper is featuring a series of articles on Canadian health care. I find the online...
The Road to Patient Safety: Halfway Between Nowhere and Somewhere Canada wasn’t the first country to examine the rate of adverse events in its hospitals, but it did...
What Concerns You Most About Canadian Health Care? Results of the latest Nanos Poll show that health care is once again the top national issue for Canadians....
News Program Features Story About Transparency and Accountability in Canadian Health Care The CTV news program W5 recently aired “Silent Treatment” a story about the struggles...
Privacy Legislation and the Right to Know: A Manitoba Couple Helps the Province Clean Up its Act, Part II A year after the death of her mother Frances, Mimi and Blake found that many of their questions were left...
Privacy Legislation and the Right to Know: A Manitoba Couple Helps the Province Clean Up its Act, Part I People from countries around the world gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2002 to advocate for the right of...
Canadian Health Care System Needs a Dash of Consumer Incentive Earlier this week the federal, provincial and territorial health ministers met in Newfoundland to discuss...
Putting Patients First in Saskatchewan: A Small Step Forward The Saskatchewan government recently entered into a contract with the Omni Surgery Centre in Regina and is...
Quebec Government Now Funds IVF Treatments: Can Patients Afford to Wait? The province of Quebec is now funding in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. Proponents of government...
Doctors Adverse to Mixed Martial Arts Fights in Canada Doctors in British Columbia recently passed a resolution at a meeting of their provincial medical...
Transforming Canadian Health Care Takes More Than Words The Canadian Medical Association (CMA), representing the interests of more than 72,000 members nationally,...
