According to the Economist ( May 2023): In Britain the focus is on how to fix the beleaguered National Health Service (NHS). In Canada, beleaguered is kind. Broken best describes Canada's heatlhcare scene. Go to an ER to test drive heatlhcare. Hospital waiting lists in England have spiralled beyond 7 ...
Not enough thought is being put into understanding the toxic workplace in healthcare and how to fix it. Many nurses and doctors are opting out. They are opting out because their workplace is toxic. The workplace is damaging them. Their health. Their psyche. Their stability. Their families. So the obvious ...
The greatest tragedy in responding to disasters, and CDN healthcare is disaster, is the misuse of the chain of learning. We fail to learn or we do not implement what we learn. There is a need to do disaster contingency planning for healthcare. Especially primary care. Those in public health ...
I walk the puppy at least twice per day. I tend to look down at the sidewalk. Looking down so as to not stumble. When I look down, there is a story revealed by the imprints in the concrete. In the 1950's 60's and 70's, the imprints show that the ...
Quebec is unique. Family doctors can opt out of medicare. In Quebec the provincial payor is RAMQ. We just got the list with all those doctors who have opted out of medicare in Quebec. The list that we got has about 700 doctors who have opted out. There are about ...
Virtual healthcare or telehealth on a platform like microsoft teams or zoom grew from about 1% pre-pandemic to about 70% during and after the pandemic. Patients and their psychiatrists were amazed by the ease of use and by how the platform made the services more available. But as of today, ...
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When a panel of licensed health-care professionals compared two responses to patient's questions: ChatGPT's response to a patient's questions compared to a medical doctor's response to the same patient's questions. ChatGPT won, by a landslide. In fact, the panel of medical experts preferred ChatGPT's responses to nearly 200 “doctor-patient” exchanges ...
hi We just filled out the 21 page application for a patient to be able to use the TTC wheel trans service. The form is very long. Very complex. Very confusing. Requires a doctors signature. It is impossible to fill this out if you are blind. The 21 page very ...
Source: Bloomberg Business Week. In the third part of our series on TikTok and its trust and safety issues, we look at how an algorithm has led some teenagers down rabbit holes related to body image, self-harm, depression and suicide. This includes the story of parents in New York whose son stepped ...