Canada’s leading health organizations warn that mandating data standards won't fix a fragmented system without dedicated funding, clinician support, and national compliance targets.
‘We’re now starting to see more and more people in the 20-, 30- and 40-year-old range developing colon cancer. At the beginning of my career, nobody that age had colorectal cancer.’
At our walk-in clinic, I recently was asked to see a patient with a ‘sore foot.’ The patient had not complained, but his family had noticed a lesion on the sole of his foot and insisted that he seek medical advice.