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The enormous cost of public-private partnerships
Three recent BC public private partnership (P3) hospitals developed in co-operation with the province’s Partnerships BC (PBC) will cost the public $260 million more than…
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Why my dad and I will vote for health
As a family physician, the most important way I can help (and not harm) my patients, is to vote for healthcare in this election.
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Evidence is in: privately funded health care doesn’t reduce wait times
Current public dialogue is full of questions about what kind of innovation or “revamping” the health system needs. In this context, as a physician, I…
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How Doctors are Paid in BC
[A version of this piece was posted on the Tyee] Health care is the biggest, most expensive and most important thing that government does.…
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Anti-poverty movement, meet the culture of medicine.
The evidence for the burden of income inequality on health is plentiful and convincing, with inequity and its health impact both increasing in British Columbia in recent years. Many…
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Making health care funding sustainable
The BC Legislature’s Select Standing Committee on Health is currently investigating the sustainability of BC’s health care system (with a focus on demographic / aging…
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The End of the H1N1 Pandemic
The world spent billions on medication and vaccine stockpiles because the World Health Organization cried wolf. If the WHO cannot cleanse its ties to the industrialists hungry for profits in exaggerating the severity of disease in order to sell treatments, why should we ever again listen to anything they say?
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Cholesterol drugs don’t help the healthy
I have said this before and this recent research begs me to say this again: Someday we will look back on society’s zeal for checking and chemically altering our blood cholesterol in the same way we now regard blood letting and purging: A medical barbarity that good science cannot support.
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Teeny Budget factoid
It appears when it comes to the heavy lifting of cutting spending in BC, not all public agencies are equal. The February Budget documents stated…
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A Framework for Enhancing Home Support in BC
Home support is an important element of the broader home and community care system, which unfortunately tends to get overlooked in many health care discussions.…
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Seniors’ care concerns should be taken seriously in this election
Access to residential care beds for seniors was dubbed “an election hotspot” by CTV early last week, and for good reasons. The party that forms…
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Docs call for more attention to addiction
The BC Medical Association released an important report at the end of March. The Vancouver Sun gave it good coverage, but overall it didn’t get…
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