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Tag Archives: Health Care Crisis
When “The Duchess” says jump, you jump! Sheila Weatherill testifies at the Queue Jumping Inquiry
Has the public inquiry into preferential access (queue jumping) into healthcare been a colossal waste of time? Not on your life! The inquiry created a window, rather like that in the cannulated cow, into the byzantine and sometimes Machiavellian antics … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Health Care
Tagged AHS, Health Care Crisis, Merali, Preferential Access Inquiry, Queue Jumping, VIP, Weatherill
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The Press Did It
The MLAs were back in the House for two days and already the Premier was getting feisty. What set him off? Legitimate questions from the opposition. Dr Swann started the ball rolling by asking the Premier to explain why the … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Health Care, Politics and Government
Tagged Dr Swann, Health Care Crisis, Stelmach
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Real Evidence Bites Back
Lawyers are taught never to ask a question on cross-examination if they don’t already know the answer. They are also taught never to rely on a case to support an argument if it also includes statements that can turn around … Continue reading
8 Magical Minutes
Do you remember Carlos Castaneda, the American anthropologist who started his career writing factual accounts on Mesoamerican shamanism and ended it writing fictional stories infused with magical realism? Stelmach’s year-ender interviews with the media indicate that he’s going down the … Continue reading
A Pretty Good Job???
I don’t know about you but I’m getting a little tired of being told that health care costs are out of control and that somehow it’s my fault because I run to ER at the first sign of the sniffles. … Continue reading
The Lens of Politics – Part 2
So in reviewing the events of the last two years one can see that the government reacted swiftly and decisively to neutralize the medical community and the regional health boards who were trying to fix the ailing health care system. … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Health Care, Politics and Government
Tagged Health Care Crisis, Raj Sherman, Zwozdesky
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The Lens of Politics – Part 1
How did the Alberta health care system melt down so dramatically in such a short space of time?* In 2008 Dr Parks and other ER doctors provided the government with hard evidence that there was a serious problem by documenting … Continue reading
A Christmas Present?
What a bizarre week! Dr Sherman, the junior health minister, fired off an incendiary email to his fellow MLAs blasting the Premier and Cabinet for their inept management of the ER wait time crisis—and was kicked out of caucus. Dr … Continue reading
Dr. Duckett’s Bad Hair Day
This has been a bad week for the AHS and Dr. Duckett. On Wednesday the AHS posted its actual performance against target performance for ER benchmark wait times. You’ll recall that the benchmark wait time is 4 hours for treatment/discharge … Continue reading
Who are you going to call? (Ghostbusters!)
Sometimes the problem of Alberta’s failing health care system seems insurmountable. Like a tangled ball of yarn I wonder where does it start—ER waiting times, shortages of acute care beds, adding long term care beds—and where does it end? It … Continue reading
Susan on the Soapbox 