The question is not whether digital systems can do more. It’s whether we are designing and governing them to protect the core functions of primary care – or allowing them to add load in ways that quietly undermine care.
We must learn the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent thousands from acquiring a preventable workplace-acquired illness.
Primary care in Canada is in the middle of a digital paradox. Electronic health records and digital tools were introduced to make our work easier, safer and more coordinated.
"We call on Members of Parliament not to pass Bill S-228 in its current form and focus instead on improving policies and funding that could enhance enforcement of existing laws that prohibit coerced sterilizations."
We must construct mobile urgent-care trailers in our hospital parking lots to bypass the institutional bottlenecks of emergency departments to finally provide Albertans with the timely care they deserve.
Primary care is the foundation not only for individual but also for collective health, and we must mobilize more family physicians to improve it.
On World Adherence Day, the message should be simple but transformative: before we ask patients to follow treatment, we must ensure they truly understand it.
"Systems would visibly fail. And perhaps – like the family that finally sets the boundary – they would be forced to build what they’ve never needed to, because we were always there."
It’s imperative we protect access to health care for refugees and asylum claimants. There is no compromise when it comes to equitable health care.
The Primary Care Act and the vision that positions primary care as the foundation of Ontario’s health system is the bold thinking our system has needed for many years. But now is the time to act on retention.
The millions of Canadians living with diabetes deserve better than a lifetime of restriction and shame.
If Ontario wants to help more people age at home, it should apply lessons from home palliative care to frailty right now. It needs to stop treating frailty as an administrative afterthought, and act on what it already knows works.
If Canada continues expanding assisted dying, it must answer hard questions. Are we expanding access to death faster than access to care? Are we ending lives prematurely when people could have flourished with adequate suicide prevention and support?
Patients should not have to file formal requests to understand their own care. They should not have to wait months to read information that already exists. And they should not be excluded from conversations that shape their health and lives.
Humanity is living longer, yet a growing portion of that extended life is spent in poor health. What if the same forces that prolong life, namely technology and industrialization, are also increasing the percentage of our lives spent unwell?
Bill S-228, which would criminalize forced and coerced sterilization with an up to 14-year prison sentence, is on its way to becoming law. But is it a step in the right direction? Experts weigh in.
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