Universal Health Care in Canada: A Colossal Government Failure
The median waiting time for patients in Canada from referral by a practitioner, to consultation with a specialist, to date of treatment, was 21.2 weeks in 2017.
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03. Should Doctors Protect their Turf?
Anish Koka and Michel Accad discuss a “white paper” calling for some deregulation of the apparatus that rules the supply of physicians and their scope of work.
02. Francis and Accad on EBM
Anish Koka and Michel Accad have a fun chat with Professor Darrel Francis on evidence-based medicine (EBM).
01. Confessions of a Pharma-fed Doctor
Hosts Anish Koka and Michel Accad discuss the influence of drug companies on physician practices
The Myth They Used to Pass Canada’s Universal Healthcare
The medical establishment has done its best to crush market-oriented strategies to make healthcare more affordable.
What’s the “Social Cost of Carbon?”
Unfortunately, it's not actually possible to determine the costs of our current choices 200 years in the future.
Doctors’ Prescriptions Remain a Key Driver Behind Opiate Addiction
Widespread physician pushing of opioids — combined with government regulations — have increased the most unsafe uses of opioids.
End the Drug War for These Very Practical Reasons
Drug addiction is indeed a serious problem. But the war on drugs does not lessen this problem, nor does it address the core issues leading to addiction.
Health Care: American Mania vs. Canadian Sclerosis
The Canadian medico-sclerosis would have been worse if it weren’t for the American medico-mania which has brought an unbelievable number of innovations.
Patients Are “Dying in Corridors” of Britain’s Socialised Health System
Britain's socialised healthcare system seems to be in a permanent state of crisis.
