“Everything (in health care) is fixable. Our problems in health care are structural and administrative. We have the solutions but we need implementation and courage” ⁦CAEP⁩ ⁦André Picard⁩

“Canada’s approach to health and health care must not become a case of the survival of the fittest, richest, or most well-connected. Health for all matters for all” Jane Philpott My FacDev UCalgaryMedicine

She argues that the CHA should not be discarded. Rather it should be embraced, strengthened and spruced up to fit the times.

IMO she correctly argues that the underlying problem for our healthcare system is lack of access and lack of accountability for that. /2

'I feel like family doctors are drowning in this province and no one in government is extending a lifeline' -- Frustrated family doctor in Sudbury speaks out, by Stéphanie Giroux
thesudburystar.com/opinion/column… via SudburyStar Jo-Anne Clarke

Richard Southern This Ontario government is a Saturday morning cartoon.

From the archives:
Until we have a clear goal that every Canadian will have a medical home – and make primary care a priority -- we will never have the health care we deserve, by @picardonhelath (2022) theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… via Globe Opinion

Spending more than any Premier in ON history —(on bad deals ON neither wants or needs —like multi-billion$ highways, parking lots, & tax cuts) —while starving health care, education & other critical programs.

#DougFordMustGo !!! thesudburystar.com/opinion/column…

After six months in an Edmonton hospital, paralyzed was hoping for a spot in a care home. He was sent to a Travelodge hotel instead, by Julia Wong cbc.ca/news/canada/ed… via @cbcnews NeglectedNoMore #CanadaWAITS

The middle class has been dying for years, but with the purposeful destruction of social supports and healthcare it’s a body count now. You may have been lucky and born with the right parents, but if you continue to support these governments you’re walking a self made precipice.

A long 🧵 about the Task Force (TF)
There are 2 risks of screening. The TF calls them 'harms.' The one they’re most concerned about is the anxiety women experience if they are recalled for more tests, and turn out to NOT have cancer.

1/ Last month, I wrote a piece that puzzled over the use of a Mary Oliver poem in Nyad, a biopic of the swimmer Diana Nyad starring Annette Benning & Jodi Foster. I hypothesized that Netflix hadn't properly licensed her work. Then I received an email.

Shoppers Drug Mart accused of unethical billing practices in the provision of medication review services—aka #MedsChecks , by Nick Tsergas canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/02/18/sho… via Canada Healthwatch 🍁

With Ontario's senior population about to spike, report predicts big demand for #homecare . Number of people age 75+ in the province forecast to rise by 350,000 in next 5 years, by @cbcqueenspark
cbc.ca/news/canada/to… via @cbcnews NeglectedNoMore #aging #eldercare

This piece by Elizabeth Payne captures everything - things you can only understand if you work in this system or have tried to navigate it for yourself or someone you love.

'I thought I understood the health system. But I really didn’t until my father fell.'

ottawacitizen.com/feature/the-fa…

It really begs the question why this isn’t someone on the street with a bullhorn as opposed to in a press theatre with Cpac coverage.

I've devoured news since I became literate and I don't think it's ever felt so unbearably wrenching. Like drinking napalm. How are we all coping?