N.L. ‘on par with Puerto Rico and Venezuela’ financially, health minister says

Dr. John Haggie, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Health Minister discusses the budget deficit his province is facing in this June 29, 2016 article in The Telegram (St. John’s, NL). He called it “unparalleled in Canadian history in any jurisdiction”. At the July 2016 Primary Healthcare Forum Conference, Dr. Haggie compared the $2.4 billion deficit to the likes of countries […]

Doctors go ‘Lean’ to cut wait times, improve health-care efficiency

Submitted by: Hedi Cameron, Regional Manager, CanAm Physician Recruiting This is a great example of how looking at a problem in a different way or from a different perspective can make improvements, which may appear to be small on their own, but cumulatively amount to significant changes. The same principles that work at making financial institutions and […]

Cannabinoid Medicine’s rapid success through continued growth

There is a lot of talk in the media these days about Medicinal cannabis and how successful these clinics might be.  Canada’s largest and most reputable is Cannabinoid Medical Clinics (CMC); headquartered in Toronto this clinic has, in the past 10 months gone from one clinic in downtown Toronto with two physicians to 6 clinics with upwards […]

More medical marijuana clinics popping up across Canada

Cannabinoid Medical Clinic currently has locations in Toronto, Barrie, Halifax, and Ottawa, but the company is going to be opening locations in St. John’s, Calgary, and Edmonton over the next couple of months — and bringing their total to 20 clinics across Canada by the end of 2016. Dr. Danial Schedcter, medical director of Canabanoid Medical Clinic, […]

Shuttle service easing doctor shortage in B.C.

More than 800 people in Ashcroft, B.C. have been without access to a family doctor. So a new initiative is — pioneered by the Ashcroft Wellness and Health Action Coalition, doctors at the Lillooet Hospital and Interior Health — is shuttling them 100 kilometres away to Lillooet where they can be seen by a resident in […]

Lack of doctors for Canadian reservists

The country’s military ombudsman has found that National Defence is reluctant to conduct regular health assessments on reservists because over one-third of them have no family doctor — and if they’re sick it would be the department’s responsibility to care for them. Gary Walbourne’s latest report shows only four of the military’s 18 field ambulance […]