Canada has lots of doctors. The challenge is that the people who need health-care services cannot access the right care.
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Despite protective apology legislation across Canada, many doctors and other health-care professionals remain too afraid or ashamed to apologize after medical errors.
Doctors who won't perform abortions on religious grounds may have stronger legal protection and may not be compelled to refer women to an alternative provider. Here's why that's bad news for women.
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for medicine, but safeguards are needed to ensure it does not harm patients.
Security guards won't protect paramedics and community nurses from violent patients. And in hospital, some security guards can unwittingly escalate violence, unless they're specially trained.
Cuba is offering a compelling example of how we can take care of each other during the climate crisis with its work training doctors on Kiribati, a nation that is being devastated by climate change.
To reverse brain drain, the government should create a conducive environment for investment that will ensure employment opportunities
It is not always easy to identify who needs palliative care.
Analysis of 228,000 comments shows that while surgeons are likely to be called ‘outstanding’ and ‘brilliant’, receptionists are branded 'arrogant' and 'rude'. But it's not because they do a bad job.
It takes about three years for safety problems to be identified in new drugs, newer drugs are almost always more expensive, and yet Canadian doctors still hand out hundreds of thousands of samples.
Physician Magnus Hirschfeld advocated for those he called 'sexual intermediaries.' His activism began before World War I – and ended only when the Nazis came to power.
Outed. Denied care. Openly harassed. These are just a few of the experiences reported by American transgender and non-binary individuals when seeking medical care or social services.
Patients may be at risk while chaperones fail to act impartially.
New analysis from the Migration Observatory suggests skilled visa could still be refused in the future despite recent moves to exempt doctors and nurses from the cap.
The US is currently short on 182 drugs and medical supplies. The problem isn't new, but it's frustrating health care workers.
To improve wait times for surgery, Canada needs to fix its health-care system. Developing a national seniors' strategy would be a good place to start.
Who's really benefiting from a health care system that provides free or low-cost plastic surgeries for the poor?
Being more caring could lead to more female doctors burning out.
Weight stigma at the doctors can be mentally and physically harmful.
The NHS funding formula is based on an unfair premise which is funnelling money away from the regions that need it most.
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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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Brett Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, 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.
Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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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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Founder of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance & Emeritus Professor, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer law, ethics and sociology, Charles Sturt University
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Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Public Health Law, University of Melbourne
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Peter Sivey is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University
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Academic Lead, Ethics and Professional Practice, Griffith University
