Sunday House Call, #712, October 6, 2019: It’s Federal election time and no politician has the courage to discuss the meaningful changes to health care required to reduce suffering.

Topics today include:
The hypocrisy of government health care policy is plain to see yet on all levels our politicians bury their heads in the sand waiting for someone else to make the first move. It will likely be the Supreme Court. Our brave politicians can then say, “See, it is not us that wanted to do this but we now have a ruling that says we must.”

Drug shortages continue. This time it is Oxytocin used in obstetrics.

Measles arrives for a visit to the ByWard Market in Ottawa.

Your calls about:

• A woman calls with a followup on her treatment for alcoholism. Doing well at the six-month mark.
• The flu and its effects on those with heart and lung disease
• Management of osteoporosis