How to improve mental health care
Care becomes more accessible when doctors aren’t the first contact or the key holders to care
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Author: David Zitner
Put e-health systems to work to distribute COVID-19 vaccine
First in line must be those with the greatest risk, which we can assess based on pandemic morbidity and mortality statistics
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Trump defies the fundamentals of faith
Trump has blatantly contravened many of the commandments. He exhibits none of the qualities God teaches and which we should value
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Health-care roadblocks stymie patients
The N.S. Health Authority lets an inefficient telephone system act as an important barrier to timely care
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Creating an unnecessary barrier between doctors and patients
A convoluted – and doomed – communication portal in Nova Scotia has failed the health care system and its users on both sides
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One patient, one record: the folly of Nova Scotia’s latest health plan
The plan seems to depend on methods developed in part in other countries that rank poorly for health services delivery
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The benefits of being an unlicensed medical doctor
An unlicensed doctor is free of the burden of bureaucratic make work, and can instead spend more time with a patient and keep up with medical research
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Nova Scotia increases health system complexity at the cost of actual care
Strangely, the health authority seems to believe that increasing the administrative burden on clinicians won’t decrease care
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Not every mental health concern requires a doctor
Changing the way we support services can reduce the need for unnecessary drug treatment
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The hidden dangers lurking in health information systems
Canadians have realized little health benefit from the billions spent on health information systems
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