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House Calls, #1037, November 8, 2026: Intimidation is Education!
The Ontario Ministry of Health has sent letters originating from its Payment Accountability and Fraud Control Unit to family doctors stating that they have “abnormal” billing patterns. One rural physician who has taken on more patients under the aegis of the government’s own Primary Care Action Plan to link more Ontarians without a family doctor to…
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Ontario Health Ministries intent to intimidate family doctors with threatening letters is par for the course based on their past behaviours, actions, and attitudes.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 6, 2026 Source:The Ford government sent this doctor a letter over the ‘high number’ of days he worked. He wants an apology
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House Calls, #1028, September 7, 2026: When the System Protects the Rules More Than the Patient
The heartbreaking story of Jess Grossman, a 37 year old Canadian woman diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer. Her video explains all regarding the progression of her disease amidst the wait time for treatment that may have allowed the aggressive cancer to spread. As she’s told it: rectal cancer was diagnosed after an ER physician…
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House Calls, #1027, August 30, 2026: Canadian health care system survey illustrates the contradictions and clear tension between diagnoses of systemic failure and preferred solutions (or non-solutions)
The majority of Canadians, according to this latest survey view our health care system to be in crisis yet offer solutions that have repeatedly failed as if expecting the same remedy will just work this time around. There is also a tinge of hypocrisy within some of these viewpoints that I discuss in my op-ed.…
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House Calls, #1024, August 2, 2026: Your health taxed to the limit.
Joining me today is Nadeem Esmail, Director, Health Policy at the Fraser Institute. We discuss their latest report, The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2026. How much of our taxes go to health care? Do we get value for our dollars? How does this compare to other universal health care systems in the world…
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House Calls, #997, January 11, 2026: Enter at your own risk!
Our Hospital systems are in crisis. They cannot handle any sort of overload and this has become Crystal Clear during the flu season. Patients are now being warehoused in ambulance bays with beds separated by sheets. The healthcare professionals are faced with trying to provide care in less than optimal conditions. And yet, it is…
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House Calls, #987, October 26, 2025: Oh where or where has our healthcare gone?
A Fraser Institute report reveals that Canada’s health care system is continuing to decline compared to other 31 other OECD countries that have universal health care systems. When are we going to say that we need to emulate what they do instead of continuing to ride the same old train. Reference: Comparing Performance of Universal…
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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…