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December 15, 1999 The Crisis facing our hospitals
"It's not the men in your life that counts; it's the life in
your men."
- Mae West, I'm No Angel, 1933.
4/Feb/2001 Family doctors are the key
Do see The Roper Letter vol 1 & 2
also Wed 884 a medical night 5 June 1999
Pierre-Yves Cremieux of the Universite de Quebec a Montreal
described a detailed study of Quebec hospitals showing that if all of the
province's 100-plus hospitals could be made as efficient as its top 37 hospitals, upward of $700 million a year could be
saved. He and his four co-authors also discovered that Quebec
hospitals suffer from diseconomies of scale - that is, the bigger they are
the less efficient they tend to be, which is bad news for Montreal's
proposed super-hospital.
On Thursday, March 4 at 9 p.m. (EST), as part of it's Witness series, CBC
presents Endnotes -- a one hour documentary film about Montreal's Royal
Victoria Hospital's Palliative Care Unit. This beautifully photographed work
sensitively records a series of poignant interactions between patients, family
members and caregivers over a one month period. The film captures the unique
philosophy and atmosphere of a unit that is respected worldwide as a model for
compassionate care for the terminally ill. The focus is on three patients and
the physical, emotional and spiritual challenges they face in their final
days. As we follow their moving stories, we also get to know their caregivers
-- doctors, nurses, therapists and volunteers -- and how they are affected by
their work with the terminally ill. Directed by Garry Beitel and produced by
Barry Lazar, Endnotes is a heartwarming and compelling documentary.
Endnotes is produced by Beitel/Lazar Productions Inc. in co-production with
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
By: NICOLAS STEINMETZ
The recommendations of the Clair Commission are not revolutionary. They build upon a sound base. Mostly they are realistic and concrete and they make sense.
With some exceptions - not many - reaction to the commission's report on health- care reform has been positive. It's hard to argue with a report that, throughout several hundred pages, puts the patient at the centre of our health-care system. That's basic common sense. What's needed is better organization - team effort and tighter management - to achieve greater integration and efficiency in health and social services. Therein lies the primary conclusion of the work accomplished by the commissioners.
See MedicalNotes for recient news
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Dr. Mark Roper
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At annual meetings of the Canadian Economics Association
From: BarryLazar@aol.com
Subject: March 4 - ENDNOTES, a national CBC TV documentary on palliative care
Hugh Scott
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Tue 4/17/01 7:00 PM 4/Jan/2001 Canada Health Act is pie in the sky
However, according to a yearend poll, conducted by Maclean's magazine and Global Television, both Chretien and Day, as well as the other federal politicos, are out of step with a majority of Canadians on this issue, 54 per cent of whom affirmed they would accept user fees as a way of addressing spiraling health-care costs; a near-majority of respondents - 47 per cent - said they would accept a private system operating in tandem with the socialized system as a solution to the nation's health-care crisis. .
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