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Blacklock’s- Few Hear Of Pharmacare Act

Few Canadians know of cabinet’s pharmacare bill though cabinet has promoted it as groundbreaking, says in-house Privy Council Office polling.

“None were aware of any action from the federal government related to establishment of a national pharmacare program,” said the Privy Council report. Findings were drawn from focus groups nationwide. The Privy Council commissioned the questionnaires under an $814,741 contract with The Strategic Counsel, a Toronto pollster.

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Sun- ‘We are watching the collapse of our system in real time’

It’s now routine for patients to wait 10 to 15 hours for care, a potentially dangerous situation said Katz, who works at St. Boniface Hospital — noting bottlenecks aren’t in emergency departments, but rather in patient outputs.

Good thing there’s a new Sheriff in town.

Average ER wait times have gone up by almost an hour since the NDP took office, said PC Health Critic Kathleen Cook. Despite campaign promises, there still isn’t a concrete plan from the NDP to address staffing shortages, she said.

“We are 10 months in, and really all we’ve had so far is a listening tour,” she said.

Honoring Dictators

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Given the disastrous outcomes of Covid pandemic policy and the massive backlash that it created, one would think that governments would go out of their way to avoid giving too much notice to those responsible for such fiascos, but apparently the government of Manitoba thinks otherwise.

Manitoba’s chief public health officer, Dr. Brent Roussin is a physician, law school graduate, and familiar face to Manitobans as the province’s top public health authority and spokesperson during daily COVID-19 pandemic news conferences. A specialist in public health and preventive medicine, Dr. Roussin also brings an understanding of administrative law that was particularly helpful during the province’s COVID-19 response.

Functionaries like Roussin basically assumed the role of provincial dictator and divided their fiefdoms between “essential” and “non-essential” businesses, bankrupting many in the process. They also implemented such inanities such as restaurant masking rules and, in Manitoba, the bizarre measure that one could only golf with members of one’s household. Why do some insist on honoring such fools?

Your Coronary Bypass Will Have To Wait

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Montreal Gazette- French-language inspectors are cracking down on Montreal hospitals

Language inspectors from the Office québécois de la langue française are expanding the range of their inspections beyond businesses and are now targeting hospitals in the Montreal area, even going so far as to verify whether French is being spoken in operating rooms, The Gazette has learned.

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Globe and Mail- Staff shortages, larger case loads causing Alberta medical examiner’s office to fall far behind

The annual report, which covers April 1, 2023, to March 31, concluded that a steady increase in cases since 2020, driven in part by COVID-19 and record-high drug poisonings, has created the backlog. Death investigations are now taking, on average, nine months to complete. Any case that has not been completed within nine months is considered part of the backlog.

How Could They Not Know This?

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Serious question.

Global- How many doctors does Canada have? Feds to fund research to find answer

The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement.

The money is being divided among research groups that aim to collect and study data on Canada’s health workforce, which has been difficult to gather across provincial health systems.

The largest sum, $22.5 million, is being given to the an arm of the Canadian Institute for Health Information to figure out where gaps are in the workforce.

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We need more administrators with higher salaries that should be paid for by higher taxes on primary health care providers. Easy peasy.

Canadian Press- Nova Scotia emergency department deaths hit six-year high, doctors point to ‘bed-blocking’

Retired doctor Robert Martel, who worked in Nova Scotia ERs for decades, says many beds in emergency departments are blocked because they are occupied by patients who can’t get a spot in long-term care or who need community services. He says patients are also showing up at emergency rooms far sicker than they should be, because they don’t have a regular doctor who could have detected their illness earlier.

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Trust the experts.

Calgary Herald- Long waits for cancer treatment worsens illness, endangers lives, infuriates patients

A heartbreaking video is circulating on social media from a young Edmonton woman whose husband was diagnosed with gastric cancer on May 2, but two months later has no appointment to see an oncologist.

She says he’s developed severe related problems and has been in hospital. Gastric bleeding. Stomach perforation. A collapsed lung.

The Doctor Will Diversify You Now

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As if Canada’s single payer system were not plagued by enough problems as it is, our medical schools are happily wasting their students’ time with every manner of woke propaganda.

“I always used to think that physicians are critical thinkers,” my source laments. “I now recognize we are not critical thinkers; we don’t train critical thinking. We like head-nodders and rule-followers.” It transpires that admissions interviews are now so peppered with the word “intersection” that it’s hard not to feel nauseous, but in fairness, eager students are simply box-checking and are not themselves to blame.

“Do we need three hours on decolonization?” But the professors were told this was a sacred subject, and the university forbade any discussion because, my source says, “It was outside our teaching expertise. … Nobody was allowed to question the invited speaker. Everything was racist.”

The Self Proclaimed “Saviours” of Health Care

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In Manitoba the NDP are now firmly in control of the agenda.

The Blackrod- New stats show the NDP’s hard left-wing health decree increased suffering

The data shows that in the first six months of the NDP in power, there were 263 fewer hip-and-knee surgeries in Manitoba compared to the last six months of the Conservative Party. And that’s in addition to hundreds of hip-and-knee surgeries that could have been done if the NDP hadn’t banned sending patients to private clinics in the U.S. or other provinces.

To make matters worse, the median wait time for surgery in Manitoba jumped from six-and-a-half months to eight months.

The Blackrod- I Quit, said one of Mb’s top doctors; A brutal assessment of the NDP’s 6 months in office

“I have been a physician for over 40 years. I started out as a clinician and researcher and gradually moved into academic and health system leadership positions. I was privileged to work first in my home country (Switzerland) interrupted by a couple of years in the U.S. (University of California, San Francisco), and since 2004 I have worked in Canada, including in Toronto, where I was the director of the liver transplant program at the University Health Network, one of the largest health systems in Canada.”

“I saw a lot of health system dysfunction (in his career). However, none of it reached the extent of dysfunction that is present currently in healthcare in Manitoba.” he wrote.

Timothy Leary’s Legacy

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I’m not sure how much value there is in a Master’s degree in psychedelics and consciousness, but maybe it’s a step above a degree in unconsciousness. When socialized medicine won’t treat you, is it really that much of a bonus when the doctor can offer LSD to go along with MAID?

The program, which opens next September, will be housed in the university’s psychology department, but run in partnership with the department of classics and religious studies. Students will be able to take a broad range of courses from neuroscience to comparative mysticism.

Williams is also anticipating that those who are interested in spiritual uses will also be drawn to the program, such as practitioners who are interested in offering psychedelics for end-of-life distress and those who want to use them for traditional or Indigenous spiritual practices.

 

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Toronto Star- Patients are ‘routinely’ being diagnosed with cancer in busy Canadian emergency rooms

On a recent 12-hour shift, Dr. Kyle Vojdani diagnosed three patients with cancer.
Like most evenings, it was busy in Michael Garron Hospital’s emergency department:

A crowd of patients waiting to be seen. Physicians and nurses rushing between cases. Sick patients, some critical, waiting in hallways for a hospital bed.

Amid the bustle, Vojdani, chief and medical director of the department, had to find the time — and the words — to tell each of the three that their tests pointed to cancer.

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Calgary Herald- Policymakers in Ottawa and Edmonton maintain broken health-care system

In 2021 (the latest year of available data), among high-income universal health-care countries, Canada spent the highest share of its economy on health care (after adjusting for age differences between countries). For that world-class level of spending, Canada ranked 28th in the availability of physicians, 23rd in hospital beds, 25th in MRI scanners and 26th in CT scanners. And we ranked dead last on wait times for specialist care and non-emergency surgeries.

This abysmal performance has been consistent since at least the early 2000s, with Canada regularly posting top-ranked spending alongside bottom-ranked performance in access to health care.

Ottawa Citizen- No concern about ’diminished supply’ of doctors in Ontario: Health ministry

The argument from the province comes as the OMA, which represents Ontario’s doctors, has repeatedly warned that more than two million residents don’t have a family doctor and thousands of physician jobs are going unfilled.

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