Healthcare

JOHNSON – Proposal for City owned healthcare clinic is a smart idea

April 21, 2025 // 6 Comments

THERE’S AN INTERESTING motion going to Kamloops Council on May 6. Its being forwarded by Coun. Kelly Hall, and this one just may be the smartest idea we will have heard [Continue]

IN THE SHADOW OF THE HILLS – The cost of waiting for healthcare

March 8, 2025 // 10 Comments

PRELUDE: This editorial is part of a book series I co-authored with my senior undergraduate students last year, titled In the Shadow of the Hills: Socioeconomic Struggles in [Continue]

FEATURED COMMENT – New family doctors have unrealistic demands

January 11, 2025 // 4 Comments

Re: ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Losing one the community’s very best family doctors I found out that my family doctor is also retiring. I booked a final appointment to make sure [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Losing one of our community’s very best doctors

January 11, 2025 // 2 Comments

Editor’s note: Almost 10 years ago, family physician Paul Yanko announced he was closing his practice due to a personal medical situation. Paul was a brilliant, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – New health care clinic in Kamloops is a good start

December 5, 2024 // 2 Comments

THE NEW URGENT and primary care centre is just what the doctor ordered. And what patients have been clamouring for. Associations representing family doctors in British [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – All doctors should become government employees

September 26, 2024 // 8 Comments

SINCE DOCTOR want the benefits of employees, the logical thing to do is to make them employees of the government. Some already are. Associations representing family doctors [Continue]