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Sunday House Call, #870, March 19, 2023: The Fall of the Health Care Dominoes
Two to three times per week, I receive emails from various medical organizations like the Ontario Medical Association, the Ontario College of Family Physicians, The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and read news stories propagated by interviews with academics and health researchers all of whom have advice and recommendations on how to improve…
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Sunday House Call, #864, February 5, 2023: Blatant Hypocrisy: Some publicly-funded family practices are more equal than others. How your tax dollars do not go towards the goal of equity in health care.
In today’s show, I explain how the bleating from those that insist that equity in health care is of utmost importance will cling to their private insurance plans that provide access to health services that are not available to those uninsured Canadians. In Ontario, there are different tiers of publicly-funded family medicine practices, some that…
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Small steps in right direction to reduce the backlog of surgeries in Ontario with OHIP-funded private surgical centres. No different in terms of funding when you go to see your family doctor in their private offices and use your OHIP health card.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 17, 2023 Source:Ontario releases 3-step plan to invest in private care to reduce surgical backlog
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Sunday House Call, #860, November 27, 2022: We are just a bunch of slackers (yes sarcasm).
Words and actions matter. The latest spin on the edict to come down from the Ontario Ministry of Health precisely describes what they think of physicians, their disrespect for us, and complete disconnect from the reality practices face with limited resources and no reasonable solution from them forthcoming even though, at least for family practice,…
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Why Ontario is reducing doctors’ payments for one-off virtual appointments. And what it could mean for your health care. Dogma supersedes doctor shortage reality.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 19, 2022 Source:Why Ontario is reducing doctors’ payments for one-off virtual appointments. And what it could mean for your health care
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Sunday House Call, #846, August 14, 2022: Pavlov and the Health Care debate
Mention “privatization” and the salivary response ensues on both side of the spectrum. Today I discuss what it should really mean given that a plethora of health services are provided by private institutions that are paid when you use your OHIP card; Imaging centres, family physician’s offices, surgical centres, cardiology centres, etc. We will not…
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Reversing the disinterest of med students choosing a career in family medicine will not be solved by politicians offering the same solutions-approach and dogma as they have for the past 30 years.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 12, 2022 Source:Fewer medical students are pursuing family practices, and these doctors are worried
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Ontario Medical Association estimates that there is a backlog 16 million medical services including mental health support, surgeries, cancer screening, monitoring of chronic disease, MRIs, and CT scans amongst the myriad of other services.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 10, 2021 Source:Ontario has a backlog of nearly 16 million medical services: Ontario Medical Association
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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.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 15, 2021 Source:Ottawa’s COVID situation ‘the worst that it’s been to date’