I have often wondered why, when I meet a homeless person or beggar in the streets of Toronto, with his or her hand out for money, I give to some and by-pass others trying desperately to avoid eye- contact with the latter .If you do make eye-contact it is much more difficult to avoid helping, Continue Reading
In a proposal contained in a letter of understanding between the Ontario Medical Association. and the Minister of Health, George Smitherman, an agreement was reached that if doctors could lower the cost of prescribed medicine in the Ontario Drug Benefit Program by two hundred million dollars, fifty million would be made available for extra physicians’ Continue Reading
It was Winston Churchill, the renowned wartime Prime Minister of England, who stated “Democracy is a terrible system, but it is the best there is”. In the field of health care the inadequacy of the democratic system is very apparent. Politicians will not make the decisions to repair a badly flawed system because they are Continue Reading
As a retired pharmacist and a 73 year-old senior, I take more than a cursory interest in the present state of Canada’s health care system and the plans for making the system function better. I have yet to see any useful information made public to indicate the extent of the debate to be addressed in Continue Reading