At the dawn of Medicare, Saskatchewan’s community co-op clinics pioneered team-based, holistic care. Now, with the health system in crisis 60 years later, it may be time to return to that care model.
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Family physicians are on the frontline of health care, and their observations and support can help us get through the upcoming winter season.
From primary care to cancer screening and insurance coverage, gender-diverse people still face many hurdles to getting good medical care.
Sometimes you just can’t wait to see a doctor. With the addition of more virtual services during COVID, these days you have more options.
The future of our health system depends on recruiting and retaining passionate and highly skilled health-care workers. It’s essential to build work environments where they feel supported and safe.
A strong primary care system keeps patients away from emergency departments and helps patients self-manage illnesses. But Ontario’s plan to ease pressure on emergency rooms ignores family medicine.
Searching symptoms online has become so common there is a name for the condition of health anxiety induced by self-diagnosis on the internet: Cyberchondria.
A health policy researcher explains how doctors determine their pay rates, and the system that lets them do it.
Labor’s election pledge for Medicare includes some additional funding, but to strengthen the system, it needs to improve people’s access to doctors.
Voluntary medical societies have important roles in professional education and advocacy for doctors and patients, but there is need for transparency about relationships with pharma and health industry.
Courses designed to foster peer-to-peer learning in virtual spaces can yield research insights across disciplines.
Medical schools need long-term equity planning and built-in accountability measures in order to help realize a larger vision of anti-racist and inclusive health care.
The pathway for foreign doctors to practise in New Zealand is neither easy nor very fair, meaning an over-stretched health system is missing out on valuable expertise.
Although demanding, disruptive and violent patients are a major contributor to physician burnout, solutions to address this increasing problem are not a priority.
It’s time to make caring doctors the norm, not the exception.
The quality of grit – passion and sustained persistence – is a useful predictor of burnout and exhaustion for doctors and maybe the rest of us too.
Less than half of Canadians can see their doctor same-day, and millions don’t even have a family doctor. Improving access to care means providing doctors with the support they need to focus on patients.
The decisions of medical health-care professionals like doctors and nurse practitioners are more legally significant than ever before since they are determining vaccination exemptions.
It’s human nature to unconsciously rely on quick rules to help make spur-of-the-moment decisions. New research finds physicians use these shortcuts, too, which can be bad news for some patients.
Mistakes at the hands of health care providers are a major cause of death in the US. And many of the blunders are a byproduct of the system.
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Joel Lexchin é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Professor and Executive Dean of School, Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer, Massey University
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Brett Montgomery é um amigo do The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor of Organisational Ethnography, Cambridge Judge Business School
