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Health Care Consumerism by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I have said many times that encouraging patients to be more responsible for their health and health care is about the only way we are going to find any version of sustainabili ... Read on »

Healthcare Hurricane by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Once again, I 've been remiss in keeping up with my journal entries. Thanks to all of you who keep this blog going.One of the interesting things about the H1N1 pandemic here i ... Read on »

Ontario's Deficit-2009 by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Lots of talk about fiscal restraint by Ontario's Liberals. Too little, too late. When Smitherman was setting up his expensive Family Health Teams and spending oodles and oodle ... Read on »

Health Literacy by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Not so long ago, I think ELB asked for a new topic.....was it on "prospective" payment for physicians a la New England Journal of Medicine article? Let me know ELB a ... Read on »

eHealth Imbroglio by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine To be honest, I am getting tired of seeing Sarah Kramer's photo beside every article on eHealth and its lack of accountability. She may have been sharing the helm but the rot ... Read on »

Debt....Deficit....Darn it. by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When we talk about health care, we talk in the billions, and in some cases trillions, of dollars and in time spans of decades and in physicians and nurses per 100,000 populati ... Read on »

Prevention Pros and Cons by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Once again, I'd like to thank all of you regular contributors that keep this blog going despite my occasional respite. Of all the health care blogs and even non-health care bl ... Read on »

eHealth vs mHealth by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I`ve got to say that it seems that the MOHLTC has lost its way when it comes to health care reform and and particularly eHealth. The idea that government funds should be shove ... Read on »

The Old-Age Dependency Ratio by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine People's eyes glaze over when I begin to mention the "dependency ratio". I'm never quite sure whether they don't know what it is or whether they don't care. Could be ... Read on »

Reneging on Contracts in New Brunswick by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine New provincial health ministers are popping up across the country including in New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia and British Columbia but in Ontario, we're hanging on to David Ca ... Read on »

Kevin Falcon-BC's new Health Minister by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As of late last night, the next journal entry was going to be on President Obama's prescription for US health care which was discussed on ABC yesterday in a townhall setting w ... Read on »

eHealthOntario Accountability....or not. by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Well, after 200 plus posts it just seemed reasonable to move the discussion to a clean slate. Please feel free to refer to previous posts on the last journal entry.What can I ... Read on »

The Digital Age of Medicine by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine There is a spate of medical subjects to discuss and despite the mantra that health care has fallen off the radar of the public, I don't believe this to be true.Whether it is r ... Read on »

Influenza A H1N1 by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Okay, okay. I see that some of us want to discuss this topic which I was trying to avoid because there is so much press on this already it almost appears to be hype of some fo ... Read on »

Chemotherapy Wait Times Rising by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine While everyone seems focused on the Swine Flu, people seem to forget that patients are dying from many other things. Cancer Care Ontario reports that chemotherapy wait times i ... Read on »

Fiscal Sustainability of Alberta's Public Health Care System by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary has published a new research paper this month, "The Fiscal Sustainability of Alberta's Public Health Care System& ... Read on »

Communication Innovation in Health Care by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Much has been said about the benefits of internet technology in health care. It is said that it will decrease adverse reactions and improve efficiency through cost savings tha ... Read on »

Now Means Now-Time for more patient-driven health care by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Well, after a hiatus from my blog with just enough time for reflection on what is important and what is not, it strikes me that the media is terribly good at coming up with ca ... Read on »

Canada Values Health by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Health Council of Canada has created a web-site "CanadaValuesHealth.ca" to create a dialogue on a number of topics in health care. If you join the dialogue, you ... Read on »

BC's Chaoulli by Merrilee Fullerton Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Four years ago despite the ruling on Quebec's Chaoulli case, the move towards increased private medical options appeared to be a marathon and not a sprint.I expected that in ... Read on »

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