The players in the health care system are the politicians, the public, the health care professions, and the companies that provide the ancillary services that allow the system to operate. The PoliticiansThe politicians are interested first and foremost in getting re-elected They start every project with the best of intentions but after they have consulted Continue Reading
All sport fans crave a winner. If they are New York Yankee baseball fans they expect a world series spot nearly every year. Canadian tennis fans are more patient, much more patient, but I think their patience is coming to a justifiable end. I have been playing and watching tennis for over 50 years and Continue Reading
So! A spry eighty-year-old, still driving her car, checks out the parking spaces near her local post office and finds none available, at least not within reasonable walking distance. She pulls into a space just next to the legal parking area and walks into the post office to mail a registered letter. Three minutes later Continue Reading
There is a hidden continuing battle in the Canadian pharmaceutical industry. It pits Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (mostly international and trade-name companies) against the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association (CGPA). The CGPA are companies that produce pharmaceuticals after the patent has expired. The battle also involves the Food and Drug Directorate, whose mandate is to supervise Continue Reading
By no stretch of the imagination can Canada be considered a power-house in tennis. If you overlook men`s doubles, and unfortunately the world does, Canada ranks very low. However, in the past, it is in women`s tennis that we have made a mark and produced world caliber players who, in their time, were in serious Continue Reading
As a pharmacist, now retired, who practiced my profession for 45 years, most of the time as president of a small chain of prescription pharmacies called Vanguard Drug Mart, I can unequivocally state that the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care under the leadership of George Smitherman, has completely caved in to the research-based Continue Reading