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Rural health care: How to get it right

WEBIf we get it right, important questions about illness, population needs and health-system solutions will be answered by research that involves rural health-care …

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Digital therapeutics and the social determinants of health are on

WEBTwo of the most significant trends in health care are at cross-purposes: the boom in digital devices to prevent, diagnose, monitor and treat diseases, and the …

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Leaders must explore bureaucratic notions of health-care delivery …

WEBThis month’s Top Three focuses on the public administration of health care as contained within the Canada Health Act and the role of leadership in critically …

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‘Our planet, our health’ – Making peace with nature

WEBThis is suicidal.”. Then in its February 2021 report, Making Peace with Nature, t he UN Environment Program noted, “a healthy planet is important for the …

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‘Transformation’ in health care depends on leaders’ people skills

WEBThis month’s Top Three focuses on the issue of leadership and transformation. We regularly use the term “transformation” to describe what needs to …

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Setting the record straight: Medical experts debunk the biggest …

WEBMyth: Your individual freedom is more important than protecting the health of others. As a public health ethicist, the most pervasive piece of health-related …

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The rise of the private patient advocate

WEBThis article speaks to the many issues of navigating the changing health care system in Canada and certainly British Columbia. The need to have referrals to …

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Proposed changes to the system leaves Alberta’s health-care …

WEBAn “evisceration.” A “sense of trepidation.” A “world of uncertainty.” Those are the words that Alberta’s health-care professionals are using to describe what is …

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Quarterbacking healthcare: The central role of family doctors

WEBTo a fan, the value of these players is unquestioned. Yet in health care, the central role family doctors play on a patient’s team often gets overlooked, even to the …

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On Bill 96 and Quebec health-care

WEBAs a group of multilingual Quebec residents and first-, second- and third-generation immigrants passionately studying and/or actively involved in the health-care …

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Out-of-province medical care: what you need to know.

WEBTo get care out of province, your treatment must be considered medically necessary and not locally available. But just because you’re eligible, that doesn’t …

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Uncertainty in medicine: What happens when doctors don't have …

WEBIn medical education, uncertainty is encouraged as a bridge to curiosity. In research, uncertainty prompts scientific questions and study. In clinical practice, …

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The risks of equating ‘lived experience’ with patient expertise

WEBIn 2003, Ian Kennedy wrote in the BMJ that a patient is an expert “in his or her own experience, feelings, fears, hopes, and desires” (which seems to me a definition …

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Mental health and MAID: An ongoing challenge

WEBThis conversation of mental illness and MAiD is a complex one and rightfully so. To form strict, infallible criteria for legislative purposes, we must be able to define the …

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Health Links: Ontario's bid to provide more efficient and effective

WEBOntario’s Health Links initiative is a “big manoeuvre” in a complex provincial system, acknowledges Helen Angus, associate deputy minister with the transformation …

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