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• Still Waiting and waiting and.....

  Published: November 9, 2007, 8:32 am

  Tags: Stock Market, Tsx, Doctors, Wait Times, Medicare, Healthcare, Tony Clement, Jim Flaherty, Harper, Canadian Medical Association

  the Commonwealth Fund says Canadians are most likely to report going to an emergency room as an alternative to a visit to a doctor's office or clinic. Only 22 per cent of Canadians surveyed say they could get a same-day appointment when they're sick. Thirty per cent -- by far the highest among the countries -- say they had to wait six days or

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• Proletarian Doctors

  Published: November 8, 2007, 7:36 am

  Tags: Socialized Medicine, Health Care, Medicare, Canadian Medical Association

  integrated community medical centers and thus the proletarianization 0f Medicare through the use of salaried Nurse Practitioners and Physician's Assistants. It's an idea Norman Bethune would approve of.Dr. Sigurdson, who worked with a physician assistant during a fellowship in Atlanta, just completed a master of business administration

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• Canadian Brand Socialism: Failing the Sick and Poor

  Published: November 23, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Exclusive, Health, Lifestyle, Canada Health Act, Canadian Medical Association, Dr Brian Day

  Once a proud supporter of Canada's social safety net, Heather Cook now wouldn't mind seeing a little more free-market competition in her country. Maybe then she wouldn't have to wait over a year to take her son to the doctor's office.

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• Proletarian Doctors Redux

  Published: January 5, 2008, 3:52 pm

  Tags: Socialized Medicine, Health Care, Medicare, Canadian Medical Association

  doctors at a lower cost, and medical students would save thousands in tuition if most of its medical schools moved to a three-year program, the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests. Such three-year programs have existed for decades at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., and at the University of Calgary. Dr. Paul H bert,

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