Maternity care program cut C-sections, hospital time
CBC News
In VCH’s South Community Birth Program, family doctors, midwives, public health nurses and doulas work together collaboratively to care for an ethnically diverse, low-income population.
We all pay when health care focuses on volume, not quality
Globe and Mail — Opinion
We like to pretend that in our “socialist” medicare system everything is done for the greater good, so over-treatment, inefficiency, price inflation and fraud are non-existent. That’s a costly delusion.
Arm twisting and hand washing
Globe and Mail
The new president of the B.C. Medical Association is a straight-talking veteran of family practice. Shelley Ross spent 36 years treating generations of patients in Burnaby. Now, as she assumes her physician leadership role, she finds a Health Minister, Margaret MacDiarmid, who is also new to her job and a carbon copy of herself – not only a former family doctor, but a past president of the BCMA, as well.