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Sunday House Call, #914, February 18, 2024: The Walls are Crumbling Down.
The family doctor shortage continues apace with dire and likely accurate warnings of an almost doubling of Ontarians without access to a family doctor within two years to four million people given that 1.7 million have a doctor older than 65 years of age. Two stories hit home this week about why two physicians have…
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Sunday House Call, #913, February 11, 2024: The resurgence of measles. Rinse and repeat
How the anti-vaccine movement is downplaying the danger of measles. I discuss that although the impetus for this is based on the goal to protect children, the outcomes are resulting in the opposite. Your Calls and Comments:
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Sunday House Call, #912, February 4, 2024: Sorry, your suffering does not count, only your lab number
The hoops one has to jump through to get the tests required so that you qualify for an appointment at the Cancer Center. Your Calls and Comments:
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Sunday House Call, #911, January 28, 2024: Betrayal and Slimy Politics
Information from the Ontario Medical Association is bad news for family doctors who are trying to stay afloat and maintain their practices. Doctors are being held accountable and responsible for population increases and demands on providing care. Your Calls and Comments:
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Sunday House Call, #910, January 21, 2024: Sticking with your brand.
As insurance companies make it more difficult for patients to remain on brand-name medications that they have taken for decades, especially those on psychotropic medications, there is a work-around for some meds using the innovicares and viatrisoriginals cards. These make up most of the difference in cost between the brand-name and generic versions of the…
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Sunday House Call, #909, January 14, 2024: How health insurance company wanna-be-doctor bean counter’s medication-coverage decisions interfere with therapeutic management and has had a deleterious effect on (my) patients’ health outcomes.
I talked about this before yet this continues to be a major issue in that evidence-based medicine is being thwarted by insurance companies’ decision to not provide Semaglutide (Ozempic) for the treatment and management of obesity. It is having a deleterious effect both from a mental and physical health perspective on my patients. Wasn’t the…
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Sunday House Call, #908, January 7, 2024: Good Morning!
The shows now starts at new time of 11 AM every Sunday. Lots of calls and questions today. In the news, a new RSV vaccine approved for use during pregnancy will help mitigate the devastating outcomes associated with the infection in newborns. Your Calls and Comments:
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Sunday House Call, #906, December 17, 2023: New info on why some women have extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, weight bias, and other news.
Hyperemesis: Scientists make pregnancy sickness cure breakthrough Weight Gain Common After Stopping New Obesity Drugs, Study Shows Many Canadians have had long COVID for almost 4 years. Researchers say there’s hope Stay home from holiday gatherings if sick, Ottawa Hospital chief of staff urges as COVID, flu cases surge Your Calls and Comments:
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Sunday House Call, #905, December 10, 2023: Your Friendly Neighbourhood Insurance Company Beancounter
Insurance company personnel determine whether your prescription, that has overwhelming evidence to be prescribed for your medical condition, is acceptable by acting as judge, jury, and executioner. My patients have suffered because of their consistent refusal to cover the medications that will provide dramatic improvements in their quality of life and health. Need Ozempic? Good…