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U.K. health worker protests echo issues in Canada. They are also a harbinger of future labour disputes and systemic collapse if austerity, underinvestment and neglect of health workers continue.
More Australians are delaying care or going to emergency departments because they can’t see a GP. Here are six reasons why.
Canada is sidelining qualified doctors while many Canadians struggle to find health care. Here’s what we can and must do better for internationally trained physicians.
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.
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.
Top contributors
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Brett Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor and Executive Dean of School, Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer, Massey University
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Professor of Organisational Ethnography, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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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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Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
