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│ ISSUES DISCUSSED │
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HEALTHY CHOICES
Canada's Health Care System <01health -budget>
Consumer choice about treatments covered <01health -consumers>
Surgical procedures, which should get funding? <01health -procedures>
Physicians, are there too many? <01health -new doctors>
User fees and emergency visits <01health -after-hours>
National health objectives, do we need them? <01health -objectives>
Sickness prevention <01health -sickness>
THE MECHANISM OF MEDICINE
Health care and the Constitution <03health -Consti>
Health care and the provinces <03health -sole>
TO CATCH A SWEDE
ParticipAction's success story <04health -started>
Canadians, living longer <04health -generally>
Canadians, life expectancy <04health -vary>
Canadians, smoking less <04health -nutshell>
Canadians, drinking statistics <04health -alcohol>
Canadians, accident statistics <04health -accident>
Canadians, eating habits <04health -kitchen>
TOO MANY, TOO FAST, TOO MUCH?
Physicians, are they driving health costs up? <06health -driving>
Physicians, say they're political scapegoats <06health -scape>
Walk-In Clinics <06health -first>
Docs in a Box <06health -docs>
Physicians, oversupply <06health -over>
Physicians, payments to <06health -soared>
Revolving door medicine <06health -revolving>
Physicians, revolving door <06health -revolving>
Unnecessary services <06health -unnecess>
Fee-for-service <06health -opposed>
Physicians, salary <06health -salary>
Physicians, how should they be paid? <06health -alternative>
TAKE TWO MINUTES AND DON'T CALL ME IN THE MORNING
Treatment, more people seeking it <08health -across>
Colds, cost of treatment <08health -treating>
Consumer choice about treatments covered <08health -Medicaid>
Coronary bypass, many not necessary <08health -coronary>
Educated patient, how to become one <08health -educated>
Physician, challenging advice <08health -challenge>
Interactive video for patients <08health -video>
THE CHROMIUM CAGE
Medical technology, not fully evaluated <10health -estimates>
Medical technology, no government review of 95% <10health -review>
Drugs, spending on <10health -soared>
Magnetic resonance imaging, costs of <10health -magnetic>
Medical technology, marketing of <10health -marketing>
X-ray enhancing liquids <10health -liquids>
Lithotripters, cost of <10health -litho>
Medical technology, testing of <10health -bureau>
Tissue plaminogen activator <10health -tissue>
THE NATIONAL HEALTH - UNDER THE WEATHER, UNDER THE GUN
National Health, the delay <12health -current>
National Health, history of <12health -medicare>
Britain, National Health <12health -medicare>
National Health, critics of <12health -critics>
National Health and Margaret Thatcher <12health -Thatcher>
National Health, changes in <12health -April>
National Health and self-governing trusts <12health -self-gov>
THE U.S. - DOES THE PRESCRIPTION NEED CHANGING?
U.S. health care, change needed? <13health -surveys>
U.S. health care, skyrocketing premiums <13health -premium>
U.S. health care and lack of insurance <13health -no heal>
U.S. health care, cost of <13health -basic>
Canada's health care system, too expensive? <13health -disruptive>
Pepper Commission <13health -Pepper>
U.S. health care, task forces looking into <13health -task forces>
Physicians for a National Health Care <13health -Steffie>
U.S. health care reform, Gallup poll <13health -Gallup>
Services Employees International Union <13health -mushy>
USER PAY, USER WAIT
Canada's health system compared to U.S. <14health>
U.S. health care response to money <14health -clink>
Texas Heart Institute <14health -concern>
U.S. health care, lack of insurance <14health -no health>
Harvard study on heart disease victim wait <14health -Harvard>
Canada's health system costs relative to U.S. <14health -Evans>
U.S. health care, amount of red tape <14health -account>
THE RICH MAN, THE EYE AND THE NEEDLE
Gimbel Eye Centre <15health -Gimbel>
Gimbel, Howard <15health -Howard>
Seventh Day Adventist <15health -Seventh>
FAMILY FINANCES
Physicians, family practise <16health>
Family practise, income from <16health -grosses>
Family practise, costs of <16health -cost>
THE RURAL ROUTE
Physicians, rural practises <17health -village>
Rural practises and residents <17health -undergrad>
Rural practises, incentives <17health -program>
GOOD HELP IS HARD TO FIND
Health care specialists, shortage of <18health>
Radiation therapy technologists, shortage of <18health -world-wide>
Technologists, shortage of <18health -skilled par>
Technologists, Canada raids U.K <18health -Zeal>
Technologists, U.S. raiding Canada <18health -raids>
Technologists, shortage of and backlog caused <18health -Princess>
Perfusionists, shortage of <18health -heart-lung>
Technologists, job opportunities <18health -job op>
Technologists, why shortages? <18health -cite>
THE CINDERELLA SYNDROME
Nurses, roles change with time and place <19health>
Nurses, in North <19health -Tuktoy>
Nurses, as second-class citizen <19health -second>
Nurses, relation to health care costs <19health -mounts>
Physicians, relationship to nurses <19health -gods>
Nurses, day-night treatment of <19health -night-and>
Nurses, giving them more responsibility <19health -solid>
Nurses, study of compared to doctors <19health -Spitzer>
Nurses, as replacements for general practioners <19health -Stoddart>
Nurse practioner, history of <19health -scene>
CRITICAL RESEARCH ON THE CRITICAL LIST
Research funding being cut <20health>
Tsui, Lap-Chee <20health -Tsui>
Riordan, Jack <20health -Riordan>
Cystic fibrosis, gene responsible for discovered <20health -gene>
Research, underfunded <20health -chronic>
Researchers, demoralized <20health -demoral>
Research, infrastructure crumbling <20health -strapped>
Research, funding disjointed <20health -disjoint>
Research, funding misspent <20health -discrep>
Research, funding track record of Mulroney <20health -Mulron>
Research, funding realtive to GNP <20health -GNP>
Research, recommendations for increased funding <20health -councils>
Research, cuts to funding <20health -lopped>
Research, who gets the money? <20health -peer>
Research, corporate funding <20health -fosters>
MEDICAL MILESTONES
Medical discoveries in Canada <22health>
Banting and Best <22health -Banting>
Insulin <22health -insulin>
Sir William Osler <22health -Osler>
Pablum <22health -Pablum>
Heparin <22health -Heparin>
Bethune, Norman <22health -Bethune>
Electron microscope <22health -electron>
Penfield, Wilder <22health -Penfield>
Barr Body <22health -Barr>
Barr, Murray <22health -Barr>
Curare <22health -Curare>
Hypothermia <22health -hypother>
Vinca Alkaloids <22health -vinca>
Noble, Robert <22health -Noble>
Cardiac Pacemaker <22health -pacemaker>
Endocrine hormones <22health -endocrine>
Collip, J.B. <22health -Collip>
Blue Baby Operation <22health -blue baby>
Mustard, Bill <22health -Mustard>
Lung transplants <22health -lung trans>
Pearson, F.G. <22health -Pearson>
Cooper, Joel <22health -Joel
Genetics <22health -genetics>
Worton, Ronald <22health -Worton>
Ray, Peter <22health -Ray>
HAMILTON'S HUMANITARIAN HEALTH
McMaster University's medical school, its approach <24health -phil>
Hoskins, Eric <24health -Hoskins>
McMaster University, entrance requirements <24health -premedical>
McMaster University, are its doctors different? <24health -ter-trained>
MENTAL HEALTH ON HOLD
Mental health treatment takes a backseat <25health>
Mental health treatment, the waiting list <25health -countless>
Mental health, few treatment choices <25health -few>
Mental health, Ontario health plan <25health -Ontario>
Mental health, Alberta treatment <25health -Alberta>
Child psychiatrist shortage <25health -frustration>
Mental health, adolescent crime <25health -crime>
Mental health, Reaching for Solutions <25health -reaching>
Reaching for Solutions <25health -reaching>
Children First <25health -ren Fir>
Mental health, Children First <25health -ren Fir>
Mental health, British Columbia <25health -British>
THE HOLISTIC HUSTLE
Holistic medicine bunk but popular <26health>
Total Health '91 <26health -Total>
Holistic medicine, its scope <26health -focus>
Holistic medicine and fraud <26health -fraud>
Holistic medicine, popularity <26health -fringes>
Holistic medicine, Canada Health Monitor poll <26health -poll>
Holistic medicine, on increase <26health -Stewart>
Holistic medicine, why popular <26health -Ohlhauser>
Holistic medicine, remedies dangerous, useless <26health -Loma>
Holistic medicine, iridology <26health -iridol>
Holistic medicine, homeopathy <26health -homeopathy>
Jensen, Bernard <26health -Jensen>
Holistic medicine, energy medicine <26health -electric>
Hanswille, Gerhard <26health -Hanswille>
Roy, Leo <26health -Leo>
Bricker, Trudy <26health -Bricker>
Roland, David <26health -Rowland>
Donsbach, Kurt <26health -Donsbach>
HEALTH CARE AND POVERTY
Poverty, and health care <28health>
Poverty, Tommy Douglas <28health -Douglas>
Medical Care Insurance Act <28health -chain>
Poverty, infant mortality <28health -mortality>
Poverty, suicide <28health -suicide>
Poverty, prenatal classes <28health -prenatal>
Poverty, cancers cardiovacular diseases <28health -cardio>
Poverty, social aspects of health <28health -vaccinate>
Poverty, Ontario health strategy <28health -Rae>
Poverty, Canadian programs <28health -health gap>
Poverty, native health <28health -tuber>
NORTHERN CARE
Northern Canada, nursing stations <29health -nursing>
Northern Canada, health record <29health -abysmal>
Northern Canada, housing and health <29health -ventil>
Northern Canada, smoking <29health -epidemic>
Northern Canada, heart disease <29health -heart>
Northern Canada, healers <29health -aboriginal>
THE GREYING OF HEALTH CARE
Elderly, health care <30health>
Elderly, healing at home <30health -blind>
Elderly, Statistics Canada figures <30health -stat>
Elderly, cost of health care <30health -expensive>
Elderly, instituitionalization <30health -unbearable>
Elderly, Victoria Health Project <30health -ia Heal>
Elderly, Wellness Centres <30health -wellness>