Healthcare

EDITORIAL – Pointing the finger for allowing drugs, weapons in hospitals

April 11, 2024 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF YOU’VE BEEN WONDERING who to blame for allowing illicit drug consumption and weapons in B.C. hospitals, and leakage from the “safe” [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – Promised Kamloops cancer centre in line for PET-CT scanner

November 29, 2023 // 1 Comment

Excerpt from Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. K. Falcon: I’m sure British Columbians feel comforted knowing that after seven years of [Continue]

LETTER – Nicola Valley Hospital is not what it used to be

October 17, 2023 // 2 Comments

Re: EDITORIAL – Withholding local taxes for ER closures might get something done Dear Mr. Rothenburger, My name is Robert (Bob) Holmes and I have lived in the Nicola [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Quebec leads Canada in private health care

August 17, 2023 // 0 Comments

MORE QUEBEC DOCTORS are moving into private practice than anywhere else in Canada. They are doing so because Quebec laws allow it, and because strict requirements that are [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The medical procedure nobody wants to talk about

July 20, 2023 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WENT IN FOR my colonoscopy this week. Too much information? The reason I mention it is that I hear so many people who have never had one, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Critics of sending cancer patients to U.S. miss the point

May 23, 2023 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ALL THIS CRITICISM of sending cancer patients across the border for treatment mistakenly — but, perhaps, intentionally — conflates two [Continue]