ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 2/13/2020
N.B. deputy premier quits minority Tory government over health care reforms
The move follows the government's decision this week to close emergency rooms overnight in six community hospitals in the province - 2/13/2020
Ontario physicians adjust to new CPSO referral guidelines
Some specialists feel the new policy, which requires them to respond quickly and to call patients, is less efficient and puts a strain on their office resources - 2/12/2020
MAiD: Enlighted empathy or misguided myopia?
If mentally ill patients seek MAiD, there is simply no way to know for sure whether they satisfy the 'irremediability' criterion - 2/12/2020
The curious case of ConsultLoop: Promise and failure in Canadian healthcare
'When I look back on our journey, I don’t think that the current landscape has the right conditions for success for our type of venture' - 2/12/2020
Helping hospital patients sleep a new priority for researchers
A recent study has highlighted some of the avoidable disruptions that are keeping patients up at night - 2/12/2020
Coronavirus: The latest disease to fuel mistrust, fear and racism
Scapegoating is often used to distract from the underlying economic and political decisions that produced vulnerability to disease - 2/12/2020
Federal NDP seeks provincial support for national pharmacare plan
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wrote to every premier in Canada to outline the party's plan and ask for their buy-in - 2/12/2020
Japan confirms 12 Canadians on cruise ship infected with novel coronavirus
The 12 Canadians who contracted the virus on board the ship have been moved to Japanese health facilities, and at least three require hospitalization