April 15, 2021 Epidemiology Ottawa’s Associate Medical Office of Health reports that the COVID situation in the city is dire. Health care system at “significant risk” of breaking down as hospital admissions are doubling every 12 days.
November 25, 2020 Health Policy Canada will have to wait in line for coronavirus vaccine while other countries receive it first. What policies were in place that allowed them to have the manufacturing infrastructure to supply their citizens with earlier access?
November 18, 2020 Health Policy Pandemic contributing to Toronto’s SickKids’ inability to provide timely health services including surgeries and MRIs. However, this has been a “longstanding problem” prior to the outbreak.
April 29, 2020 Health Policy The unintended health consequences of shutting down/delaying health services during the pandemic are starting to bubble to the top. The slow boil may become a roiling one.
April 20, 2020 Health Policy Just let us use the fee codes that work! Bureaucratic Catch-22 reasons should not be in play during these extraordinary times. #DoTheRightThing
October 9, 2019 Wednesday House Call Wednesday House Call, October 9, 2019: It’s election time and no one is seriously talking about health care
September 12, 2019 Health Policy How the same old solutions and approaches will not repair the problems with hallway medicine and our health care system in general
August 23, 2019 Health Policy OMA and MOHLTC presents first 11 recommended updates to OHIP-covered tests and procedures to be replaced with more modern and effective approaches.
February 5, 2019 Health Policy With Ontario’s misguided rush to centralize health care management, smaller and effective health agencies will disappear and their roles will be usurped.
February 1, 2019 Health Policy Creating a “super-ministry” to oversee our health care system will not produce the desired outcome. It has not in the past and it sure won’t in the future.
