'Health care long ago rocketed past being a top-of-mind polling concern to reach full crisis status, for both the country at large and in the lives of individual Canadians,' writes sproudfoot.
Alika Lafontaine, president of the Canadian Medical Association and an anesthesiologist in Grande Prairie, Alta., believes most Canadians would be surprised by how little information is available to shape patient care.
One of the big changes Dr. Lafontaine advocates is pan-Canadian licensure of physicians. That would mean that when he travels to visit his mom in Regina, for example, he could pick up a few shifts without having to go to the hassle and expense of being licensed in a different province. Sarah McMullen is an internist and intensivist at Dalhousie University, and she practises critical care with the Nova Scotia Health Authority. The single biggest issue from her vantage point is a shortage of nurses. That causes a cascade of other problems: Hospitals close ICU beds if they don’t have the staff, which forces them to care for critically ill patients in other departments, and that leads to cancelled surgeries if the post-op beds are full of people who should be in the ICU.
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