Bottomless Pit
(Image Credit: James St. John via flickr.com; the image is at this link. Used without modification under Creative Commons Licence) Recent media reports about the Ford govt ‘underspending on healthcare…
Nursing Old Wounds
Shortage of nurses is among the latest hot topics in Canada right now, but the problem actually goes back at least 13 years. In trademark Canadian fashion, we are paying…
Check Point Charlie
Inadequate capacity in our healthcare system combines with inefficient methods to thwart patients’ entry into the system at multiple points. This is partly because recovered patients are often unable to…
Measuring Misery
The combined effect of ever-rising healthcare spending AND ever-lengthening wait times is a complex form of misery that, if quantified, can help us work to improve our healthcare system. Here…