In March, health authorities across the country started cancelling elective surgeries and procedures in order to clear hospitals for treating patients with COVID-19. By May, in the absence of a [...]
There are 12 homes on my block. Two of them are owned by grandparents who are in charge of caring for their grandkids before and after school. Five mornings a week, they feed them breakfast and [...]
The idea that no one should spend more time fighting their way through the health care system than fighting their disease may sound obvious and humane. But it wasn’t discovered until 1990 by [...]
Our health care system has been unwell for so long that it has attracted legions of cures. Some of these involve spending vast new dollars, like what Premier Ford has pledged to make Ontario’s [...]
Benefits providers offer their clients a raft of services, from 24/7 physician access, to internet cognitive therapy. These are often accessed via Apps. This system works sometimes, especially [...]
The more antibodies we build in our immune systems, the better we can resist the ravages of illness due to viruses. And the more of us who have antibodies to a certain virus, the more immune [...]
If your ultrasound spotted a lump, or your small previously-diagnosed lump has grown, that completely manageable cancer could now grow unchecked and threaten your life. This is because the wait [...]
In BC, it could take two years to catch up on surgery backlogs created when elective surgery was halted in March because of the pandemic. There, some 30,000 surgeries were either postponed or [...]
Last month, Mercer released its 5th study of how companies are returning to the workplace. The study is global, online and done in real-time. It seems most companies are doing something about [...]
Last week a big consulting firm asked their staff how many of them wanted to come back to work at the office. 90% of them said they were concerned about the added risk they could be bringing home [...]
