Benoît Hébert lisa machado A biopharma business strategy that is not aligned with patient needs and accessibility reality is not sustainable.

Thanks for the excellent thoughts, Benoît Hébert 🔥

We can't let stories of overcrowded ERs, burned out staff and doctor shortages lose their sting healthing.ca/wellness/opini… lisa machado | Healthing.ca 🍁 Canada's hub for health news: CanadaHealthwatch.ca

We keep telling the same stories of a healthcare system in crisis, but the catalyst for change is taking a hard look at where we'll be if we don't hold decision-makers accountable for not making decisions. #patientsvote #timeforchange #patientvoices healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

Our med schools are admitting only 167 more doctors for mandatory postgrad training than they did 10 years ago. CBC News #healthcare #doctors

Here's what some top advocates have to say about the findings of recent patient and doc survey by Novartis aimed at identifying gaps in CML patient care. @llsc CML AdvocatesNetwork #healthing #patientvoices youtube.com/watch?v=mda2sw…

🤔Thinking about experiences of #PatientPartners in #Research. Bad experiences compound and have potential to contribute to burnout and harm. We need to do better as a #PatientEngagement community. Sharing some examples in the spirit of learning. 🧵/1

There's a one or the other vibe that hangs over the debate around public healthcare versus private, but there are actually many shades in between, and it’s critical that we don’t ignore that. Healthing.ca #universalhealthcare healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

#love #CML Despite a dismal 10-per-cent expectation of survival, there once was a mom who took a shot. Her son is now a man. Ask her now what she would have done with even worse odds, and she’ll tell you that she would have still tried. CML AdvocatesNetwork healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

Sick changes everything, whether you are the patient or the caregiver. #patientvoices #livedexperience #cancer healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

No one chooses to be sick. CORD National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation #cancer #rarediseases #patientvoices #mentalhealth healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

Kate Ellis was diagnosed with breast cancer twice. She calls the anxiety of uncertainty a "special kind of hell." Healthing.ca Rethink Breast Cancer CanCertainty Canadian Cancer Society #cancer #trauma #mentalhealth healthing.ca/wellness/menta…

It's unconscionable that non-profit organizations are consistently the target of bitter criticisms about funding — where they get it from, what they use it for, how much of it is used to pay them. Such a tired debate. Uncharitable Movie Matthew Herder (@mattherder.bksy.social) IRPP healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

Long-term care is still not OK. Until we truly recognize the value of the lives we care for and the essential roles of loved ones, nothing good is going to happen with LTC. In fact, it’s just going to get worse. Healthing.ca healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

Paper bags to the rescue? Really? What about the crisis in #PrimaryCare or the need for solutions #ER departments? What about affordable housing….but sure paper bags

I liked the new National Film Board of Canada film #stolentime, but I'd really hoped the execs from #forprofitltc would have been put on the spot. To see the change we need, we have to make sure they know we are watching. #caregivers #livedexperience #ltc #dignity healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

We have research to prove that #cancer doesn't care how old you are, so isn't it time the CTFPHC | GECSSP updated #screeningguidelines? Cancer Canuck (Jason Manuge) 🇨🇦🦀💙 Colorectal Cancer Canada Canadian Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer Resource & Action Network #cancer #livedexperience #life healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

Imagine if we could make cancer therapies tolerable and quality of life focused? Survivor Network CA Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada Canadian Cancer Society OHSU News #symptomscience #cancer #livedexperience #qualityoflife healthing.ca/wellness/opini…

And just like that, after almost five years as a columnist and producer with Healthing, my time there has come to an end. Tough analysis of a failing healthcare system has never been more crucial, so forward I go, passionately writing and speaking, etc. (Lisa's version)🔥

Quality of life and survival aren't the same. Patient Voice CML AdvocatesNetwork International CML Foundation The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada Survivor Network CA CORD #leukemia #cancer #livedexperience #patientvoices patientvoice.io/perspectives/s…