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Shifting to clinics is right prescription for Ontario
Jan. 18, 2013.
It makes medical and economic sense to move routine procedures from hospitals to not-for-profit clinics. Patients get served faster in a less stressful environment, at lower cost. Best of all, studies have shown the results are as good or better… Matthews is recreating the old model of medical boutiques, but replacing small hospitals with specialized clinics… modest in scale and backed up by credible evidence.
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Annual physicals in Ontario need an update
Dec. 19, 2012
… our “free” physical isn’t significantly useful in predicting our big three killers: heart attack, stroke and cancer, nor does it let doctors catch diabetes early… new tests would keep patients out of the hospital by detecting a heart condition rather than dealing with a heart attack in the ER… true personalized medicine begins not with a medical history of your family, but with a genetics test .. they [will] save a lot more money and lives…
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Shilling for private health care
Dec. 10, 2012
Some hospital procedures are paid by OHIP. Most are paid out of global budgets. Each and every procedure is paid for by OHIP in a private clinic — an incentive to do more than medically necessary. In the lab world this means government pays about 50 per cent more to have tests done in the private sector than in a hospital according to a 2008 consultants report.
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Specialty medical clinics must be part of new health-care system
Dec. 08, 2012
Obviously not everything can or should be done in a specialty clinic and not everybody is a candidate to have a procedure in this environment. It will require better, evidence-based quality oversight. Failure to provide quality must have severe consequences. The same type of scrutiny and consequence should also apply to hospitals.
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What do clinic findings say about Ontario’s move to private health care?
Dec. 7, 2012
A 2011 survey by the College of Physicians and Surgeons found that of the 104 private clinics it inspected, 48 were substandard (including three that failed outright). This year’s college survey of 251 private clinics found 73 to be substandard (including nine that failed outright)… Why not stick with non-profit public hospitals and clinics? We know they practice good medicine. And we already pay for them.
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The best health-care system? The numbers say otherwise
Nov. 23 2012
A host of studies shows the Canadian health-care system middle-of-the-pack at best, except for cost (private and public), where it ranks near the top… No single one is determinant, but most point in the same direction: The myth about Canadian medicare is just that, a myth.
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