CHARBONNEAU – B.C. Clinics: a new business model for doctors
I SUGGEST that a new government agency, I’m calling BC Clinics, be established to deal with the crisis in accessibility to health care. The fee-for-service model no longer [Continue]
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PETERS – Link between health and happiness may explain dissatisfaction
THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE WEEK may have come on Monday, when Statistics Canada released some results from its Canadian Social Survey. It reported that the province whose [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Doctor-incentive plan amounts to robbing Peter to pay Paul
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE DOCTOR SHORTAGE was the subject of a presentation to Kamloops City council on Tuesday that was both highly encouraging and decidedly [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Doctors’ pay model wasn’t always broken
WHILE DOCTORS weren’t happy with Medicare at first, they eventually approved of the pay model. Doctors went on strike in Saskatchewan when Medicare was first enacted in [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – Royal Inland nurses ‘under immense stress and pressure’
Excerpts from Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, May 2, 2022. T. Stone: Only in NDP land would they say that presiding over an increase of 200,000 British [Continue]
COLLINS – Family medicine is almost a thing of the past
ALMOST ONE MILLION PEOPLE in our province are without a family doctor. That’s one in five people who don’t have primary care. No one they can reach out to, to look after [Continue]
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