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Ontario hospitals need to adopt a just culture for physicians

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Brooke Shekter
Brooke Shekter
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Hospital administrators wield great power over physicians to whom they grant hospital privileges to practice in their public institutions. It thus takes a lot of courage for a doctor to challenge his hospital and allege that he was treated unfairly. According to a news report, a critical-care physician in London, Ont., is suing the London […]

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Bill 60 offers no safeguards for physicians’ privileges

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Brooke Shekter
Brooke Shekter
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New legislation intended to expand the scope of OHIP-insured services that can be provided to the public in Ontario by private facilities received Royal Assent on May 18. Among the goals of the Your Health Act is to expand access to publicly funded community-based healthcare services to improve patient-wait times. But the new legislation is

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Proposed changes are meant to attract more U.S. physicians

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The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has suggested changes to registration policies intended to encourage more U.S. physicians to practise in Canada. The proposals are outlined in Alternative Pathways to Registration for Physicians Trained in the United States. The draft policy is the result of the College’s efforts to “review its registration policies

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Cutting funding for virtual health care is the wrong move

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Brooke Shekter
Brooke Shekter
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As reported in the Toronto Star, provincial funding for virtual care provided by emergency room physicians will stop at the end of March. This move, combined with reducing OHIP fees for family doctors to provide virtual care, is the wrong one. Eliminating innovative pathways to provide care to the public is not the way to

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Ontario puts out the welcome mat for healthcare workers

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Recently announced plans by Ontario to welcome more healthcare professionals from other provinces is overdue and great news for Ontario patients. Presently, anyone in another Canadian jurisdiction who works in a profession that falls under Ontario’s Regulated Health Professions Act must pay to register with one of Ontario’s health regulatory colleges. They then must prove they are

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Foreign physician accreditation project is a welcome step

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Efforts being made by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to encourage foreign-trained specialists to come to Canada to practice is a welcome step toward alleviating the staffing shortage plaguing our medical system.  According to the Globe & Mail, the Royal College – which sets national standards for doctors who specialize in

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Self-funding medical residencies will benefit all Canadians

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Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd
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Most Canadians are aware Canada needs more medical doctors. What they might not realize is that residency issues are creating a real bottleneck for Canadian doctors who are educated abroad to come home to set up practice. That must change, and one way to achieve that is to allow citizens who have received medical training in

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Nurse practitioners: the remedy to Canada’s doctor shortage

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Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd
Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd
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Health-care horror stories dominate Canadian news. If Canada is serious about addressing the shortage of primary health-care providers, the federal and provincial governments must commit to a new funding model for nurse practitioners. And soon. To read more, click here. More from TTL Health Law: It is time for Canada to go ‘Dutch’ on health

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It is time for Canada to go ‘Dutch’ on health care

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Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd
Tracey Tremayne-Lloyd
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Canada’s current model for providing health care is unsustainable. Despite having one of the highest per-capita spending levels of developed countries, long wait times, overcrowded emergency departments and a shortage of family doctors are issues plaguing most communities across the nation. Canada should instead look abroad for a solution, specifically to the Netherlands. The land

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Call to Action: We need to help Ukrainian health professionals  

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Brooke Shekter
Brooke Shekter
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The world promised, “never again.” But it is happening again. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unjustified and abhorrent terror on Ukraine is an attempt to wipe out the history of Ukraine.   Erasing history is how history will be permitted to repeat itself.   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s unparalleled heroism has set the tone for this war. He

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