Who would object to a more efficient healthcare system, where money is spent on doctors and nurses, as opposed to the bureaucrats who contribute to patient suffering?
Just how much waste do hospitals produce? At Collingwood General and Marine Hospital—a relatively small hospital with only 84 beds—23 tonnes of material end up as waste each month.
Dr. Alice Briggs turns 91 in August but this internal medicine specialist and allergist/immunologist has no intention of laying down her stethoscope anytime soon.
Litman, 46, teaches English as a second language to students in Jersey City. Her students don’t use—and perhaps have never even heard—English words like “suicide.” But they know “unalive.”
The British Medical Association, the doctors’ union, has asked for a 35% pay rise to bring junior doctors’ pay back to 2008 levels once inflation is taken into account.
When it comes to fixing Canada’s ailing healthcare systems, governments have often failed to set that baseline—so it’s difficult to know how well the treatment has worked.
