Public Health

A bunch of stuff has come to my attention recently in my social life and on my social media feeds. I’m saddened by all of it.

Because of the delays in one patient's healthcare, her cancer had spread to bone and lung. She had wasted 18 months on the waitlist. I have hundreds of stories like this.

Who would object to a more efficient healthcare system, where money is spent on doctors and nurses, as opposed to the bureaucrats who contribute to patient suffering?

A Toronto team of doctors is studying the feasibility of pre-hospital critical care teams

Primary care providers in P.E.I. get specialist input sooner to streamline a patient’s treatment and reduce number of in-person specialist consults

Hospital-at-home programs have yet to take off in Canada, though they have many benefits, especially for certain kinds of patients.

Provincial premiers have called for a meeting with Trudeau for more than a year to discuss their demand that the federal government pay a larger share of healthcare costs.

A new partnership between The University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health will study how pharmacists can contribute to the healthcare system. The research is funded for the next two years by a $3 million donation from Shoppers Drug Mart.