From Prescription Pad to Patient: Canada Must Close the Medication Gap
The Canadian healthcare system and all its stakeholders could usefully focus on one fundamental question – how do we close the medication gap?
Not just another day…
Every day we can make a difference if only we can see where we are needed and address our own fears.
Are Hospital Employees’ Work Experience and Patient Experience Related?
The more engaged employees are, the more positively they rate their hospital as a place to work, the more they trust their organization, the higher the perceived quality of patient ...
The Case to Build “Un-Hospitals” in Ontario
What if one day, everyone became healthy and no one needed to visit any hospital? What if the population did not need so many hospital beds and the huge associated ...
Bicycling on Sidewalks
As a general rule of thumb, it’s not a good idea to encourage bicycling on sidewalks. There are, of course, the occasional exceptions. This document will review the crash data, ...
Strong Foundations: Tackling Healthcare’s Failure to Communicate
Canada’s healthcare journey needs to move beyond incremental improvements. Today’s urgent agenda is about creatin an environment of integrated healthcare that fully engages the patient as a partner in the ...
The Secret to Innovation: Harnessing the Power of a Village
Canada has access to the best resources and top global experts who are inventing new ways to solve the world’s biggest problems. But to tackle some of our greatest healthcare ...
Tell Me Again, and Again
Two important questions are on the minds of many Canadians. Will I continue to enjoy reasonably good health? Will I have enough money to live on until I don’t need ...
Charter Martyr: Why Carolyn Strom’s Fate Matters to Healthcare
Canadian healthcare is an expensive morass of mediocrity, especially in the care of the elderly. It is the right and, some would argue, the duty of healthcare workers to call ...
The March for Science: Should Health Leaders Stay Out of Politics?
Advocacy is one duty of health leaders, and in this case, leaders must advocate for a society that values science and objectivity. Science is what gives us the highly sought ...
