Reading Time: 3 minutes First in line must be those with the greatest risk, which we can assess based on pandemic morbidity and mortality statistics
Author: David Zitner
David Zitner, a family doctor, is Director of Medical Informatics at Dalhousie Medical School. He has been a member of the Physician Advisory Committee to the Canadian Institute for Health Information and was on the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Deputy Ministers of Health working group which produced “When Less is Better: Using Canada’s Hospitals Efficiently”.
Trump defies the fundamentals of faith
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump has blatantly contravened many of the commandments. He exhibits none of the qualities God teaches and which we should value
Health-care roadblocks stymie patients
Reading Time: 3 minutes The N.S. Health Authority lets an inefficient telephone system act as an important barrier to timely care
Creating an unnecessary barrier between doctors and patients
Reading Time: 3 minutes A convoluted – and doomed – communication portal in Nova Scotia has failed the health care system and its users on both sides
One patient, one record: the folly of Nova Scotia’s latest health plan
Reading Time: 3 minutes The plan seems to depend on methods developed in part in other countries that rank poorly for health services delivery
The benefits of being an unlicensed medical doctor
Reading Time: 3 minutes An unlicensed doctor is free of the burden of bureaucratic make work, and can instead spend more time with a patient and keep up with medical research
Nova Scotia increases health system complexity at the cost of actual care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Strangely, the health authority seems to believe that increasing the administrative burden on clinicians won’t decrease care
Nova Scotia rationing primary health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nova Scotia Health Authority insists on deciding who will have primary-care physicians and who will not, leaving seniors and expecting parents in the lurch
Medicare crippled when government doesn’t treat us all as equals
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian health care violates human rights when governments cause limited or delayed access to primary and specialist care
Don’t gamble with your health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Follow these six steps and become an active participant in your own health care