Healthcare

EDITORIAL – Health care by telephone likely to stay after pandemic is over

March 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF YOU’VE HAD TO TALK to your family doctor or nurse practitioner in the past year, chances are you’ve been doing it by phone [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Nothing like a night in ER to make us appreciate health care

February 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

IF YOU HAPPENED to spend the night on a gurney in the Emergency Department hallway recently, you would have gotten a pretty good idea of the challenges faced by our [Continue]

LETTER – Let’s support our healthcare workers in every way we can

February 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

Regarding the recent Covid-19 outbreak at RIH, there are some things the public should consider. Not everyone is the spouse of a healthcare worker (their main squeeze) or [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Canadians want pharmacare plan covering prescriptions

October 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE October 29, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has put Canada’s health care system under a microscope – revealing millions of people in this country [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How the pandemic has changed the way we do medicine

July 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

I HAD AN APPOINTMENT with my doctor this week. He was in his office in Vancouver; I was in my house. We met on Facetime. Actually, I have several doctors. My nurse [Continue]

LETTER – LifeLabs apologizes for cyber-attack on 15 million customers

December 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

Following is a letter released today by LifeLabs with respect to the hack of information on 15 million customers. To our customers: Through proactive surveillance, LifeLabs [Continue]