Inside the OR: There’s no time to waste
The Province
The operating room follows a carefully laid-out floor plan to minimize its efficiency and sterilization. Dr. Charles Reid, PHC Head of Surgery, and Cheryl Bishop, PHC’s Director of Surgical Program, are interviewed.
Try eating on $26 a week, challenges anti-poverty group
The Tyee
A poverty advocacy group based in Vancouver is challenging BC politicians and citizens to eat on $26 per week for one week in October. VCH’s Executive Director of Population Health, Ted Bruce, is quoted and will be a challenge participant.
Hospital care indictment of Canadian medical care
Vancouver Sun – Letter to the editor
I recently experienced a six-day hospital stay, a nightmare I will never forget.
Who’s fighting for private health insurance in Canada?
Globe and Mail
It’s been seven years since the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Quebec’s ban on using private insurance for “medically necessary” services covered by medicare. Little has changed since then, but it looks like the seven-year itch is taking hold, because similar cases in Ontario, Alberta and B.C. are all expected before the courts in the coming months.