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Trusting the Ford government to get health reform right? That’s a big ask
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
… if you want doctors working overnight on-call shifts when you have a medical emergency, you want doctors to be associated with hospitals… public hospitals aren’t for-profit but they have budgets, and they make money on the easy procedures so that they can afford to handle the hard, necessary, more laborious ones… farming out easy surgeries without expanding public capacity needs to be considered carefully.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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New evidence that hospital pressured to axe doctor who criticized Ford government on pandemic
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
It’s been more than a year since Dr. Brooks Fallis was suddenly fired in January as interim head of critical care at William Osler Health System, in the hardest-hit part of Ontario. Fallis was respected and admired by peers and employers. He was also a passionate, incisive critic of the government’s pandemic response. One was given more weight by his bosses than the other.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »
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