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
Timid politicians block meaningful changes in the delivery of Health Care. The major preoccupation for all politicians is to get elected and then re-elected. Everything politicians do is measured in terms of how it affects their chances in the coming elections. Governments, both provincial and federal are involved in many issues, such as soft-wood lumber, Continue Reading
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
Whenever Jews congregate in any numbers, occasionally the talk turns to anti-semitism and the plight of Jews throughout the world. Inevitably someone uses the phrase “Zi Svere tzu Zan a Yid” which translated into English means “it is tough to be a Jew”. As a seventy-four year old native-born Canadian living in a friendly, peaceful 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