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Don’t Touch My Medicare

November 28, 2016

Trudy Lieberman, Adjunct Associate Professor, the CUNY School of Public Health

Saskatchewan doctors now checking the fiscal health of patients

November 21, 2016

Pamela Cowan, Regina Leader-Post

Dying badly in Canada Dying badly in Canada
By Harvey Chochinov

We are about to become a country that extends patients the right to a hastened death, but offers no legislative guarantees or assurances that they will be well looked after until they die.

Dying badly in Canada Dying badly in Canada
By Harvey Chochinov

Doctors are not generally well trained to engage in end of life conversations, meaning that goals of care often remain unclear; and patients may not receive the care they want, nor the opportunity to live out their final days in the place they would want to die.

Dying badly in Canada Dying badly in Canada
By Harvey Chochinov

Ignorance and lack of skill in attending to the needs of dying patients are still tragically common in Canada.

Why this US doctor is moving to Canada Why this U.S. doctor is moving to Canada.
By Emily Queenan

Like many of my U.S. counterparts, I’m a doctor moving my practice to Canada because I am tired of doing daily battle with the same adversary that my patients face — the private health insurance industry.

Dying Badly in Canada Dying badly in Canada
By Harvey Chochcinov

Canadians now have a right to medically hastened heath, but no right to quality palliative care.

QUEENAN_Why this U.S. doctor is moving to Canada Why this U.S. doctor is moving to Canada
By Emily Queenan

I’m a U.S. family physician who has decided to relocate to Canada. The hassles of working in the dysfunctional health care “system” in the U.S. have simply become too intense.

Dying well Dying badly in Canada
By Harvey Chochinov

A few days after the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the prohibition against medical aid in dying, I received a note from a wonderful colleague of mine saying that her closest friend’s 53 year old son had just died of spinal cancer.

Is CPR overused? When is it ok for doctors to let someone die?

March 4, 2015

Will the cost of senior care in Canada one day break the bank? Probably not, contrary to common perceptions.


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