Our own Interim President Dr. Mark was on CBC Today speaking about Mainstream & Alternative Medicine Mixing mainstream and alternative medicine
This may hurt a bit
Imagine, if you will, the following . . . Your doctor calls you into his or her office, sits you down, and says: “I’m afraid I have some bad news for you. We’ve run out of health care, and as…
Brian Day: 30 years of health-care dysfunction
Thirty years ago today, on April 1, 1984, the Canada Health Act became law. We can be forgiven for wondering if the date and year were coincidental, or chosen in honour of April Fools’ Day and George Orwell’s novel, respectively.…
When know-it-all politicians know nothing at all
Having worked at Queen’s Park once upon a time, I understand only too well that there’s a huge amount of paperwork the average member of provincial parliament has to dig through just to keep on top of issues and current…
DoctorsOntario should be at the bargaining table
The OMA and the government have allowed the current contract with Ontario doctors to expire. Ed Hand from “Talk to the Hand” on 1310 News in Ottawa talks with Dr. Douglas Mark about the need for better representation at the…
CHCH’s Square Off – Featuring Dr Doug Mark
Ontario Doctors are once again working without a contract. The last 3 contracts have had less than favourable outcomes for patient care in Ontario. DoctorsOntario is calling on the government to do the right thing, and are ready to come…
Attacks on doctors’ incomes unfounded and out of control
Only market forces will make governments engage long term Written by Dr. Brian Day on March 25, 2014 for The Medical Post The British Columbia auditor general recently issued a report that questioned the “cost-effectiveness” of physicians in the health system.…
Tim Hudak is right about right-to-work
Tough times call for tough measures By Stephen Skyvington It’s time to talk about the elephant in the room. You know what I mean: The No. 1 reason voters are uncomfortable casting their ballot for Tim Hudak and the Progressive Conservative…
Bet on Ontario’s minority premier, bucking history, to go for tax hikes to improve transit as an election draws nearer
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is about to do something very courageous — and pull a Joe Clark. Clark, you’ll recall, who’d defeated Pierre Trudeau to become prime minister, tabled a budget bill in December 1979 that would have hiked the…
Canada’s healthcare system: dead on arrival
Here’s a book that’ll raise your blood pressure for sure. Quite simply the best book ever written about Canada’s healthcare system, Jeffrey Simpson’s brilliant Chronic Condition: Why Canada’s Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged into the 21st Century infuriates as…