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Put Patients First – What Does It Mean & How Can We Do …

WEBPut Patients First. It means we assign or attribute value to patients above innovation, budgets, quality, regulation, efficiency or any other important issue that …

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Healthcare is an Obligation, Not a Right, Privilege, or Commodity

WEBDefenders of rights form a crowd of dignitaries. Earlier this year, President Biden said, “Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.”. Former …

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Bureaucracy vs Patient Care

WEBBureaucracy (photo credit below) Bureaus and bureaucrats create bureaucracy. Together, they build their own demand and transform people into …

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Going Nowhere Fast — Who’s the MRP for health care

WEBMost Responsible Physician (MRP) now includes Practitioner, with NPs as MRP in some cases. When dozens of people run from all across the hospital to help a …

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Healthcare Bureaucracy, Forms & Waste

WEBOverregulation. Forms represent one tiny feature of overregulation. Healthcare bureaucracy always creates more work for itself. It will never go on a diet. …

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Patient-Centred vs. Provider-Centred

WEBPatient-Centred vs. Provider-Centred. While discussing over-crowding and ‘safe, quality care’, a retired nurse manager said, “It’s all about doing what’s best for the …

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Skyvington on Medicare — Author of “This May Hurt A Bit”

WEBOne of the grumpiest politicians I ever knew said, “This is not a tea party.” Often, medical politics is war. Opponents do not enter to fight fair. I forget this all the …

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WEBAn Ipsos poll for Global News revealed last week that 42 per cent of Canadians would personally pay to travel to the United States for health care, if necessary. This is a 10 …

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Healthcare governance in Canada: Complexity, overlapping …

WEBCanada’s healthcare governance crisis. Healthcare is a sector, not a system. It is a sector of the economy comprised of many industries: biotech, pharma, …

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Salary vs. Fee For Service: Good vs. Evil

WEBWP Stats. Total Visits: 3,706,119 Total Visitors: 504,112 Recent Posts. Canada’s conservatives care about freedom—except in health care March 27, 2024; …

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Healthcare’s Iron Triangle is Hindering Innovation (via The HUB.ca)

WEBHealth care’s iron triangle rests on the concentration of power—a tripartite monopoly. The best way to undermine a monopoly is to invite new parties into the …

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When Politics Comes Before Patients

WEBOver 50% of voters under the age of 38 would prefer to live in a socialist country, according to a 2018 Harris poll. People love socialized medicine. We should not be afraid of the …

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73% of Canadians Proud of Universal Healthcare

WEBThe Association for Canadian Studies conducted a survey from June 28 to July 1, 2019. The survey shows that 73% of Canadians found personal or collective pride in …

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Healthcare Socialism AND Capitalism

WEBCapitalism describes a system where individuals own and operate the means of production and benefit personally from the proceeds of their efforts. Great …

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Do We Need a Trigger Warning

WEB2) Referring challenging patients to hospital is not cream skimming. 3) Great reputations come from seeing challenging cases, not by skimming cream. 4) Cream …

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Why Do Doctors Feel Stressed

WEBThe Commonwealth Fund’s latest statistics reveal that Canada has only 2.7 MD’s per 1000 population , #10 out of 11…with Norway leading with 4.8 per …

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'Noses in fingers out'

WEBGovernments, like boards of directors, need to know what is going on (noses in), but they cause chaos when they meddle (fingers out). Keeping “noses in fingers out” …

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Rachel Notley’s empty healthcare promises: we’ve seen them all …

WEBSurgery. Wiki Commons. Albertans will elect Rachel Notley or Danielle Smith on Monday. Healthcare always ranks as a top concern for voters, but it usually …

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