Tag: health care

• A Plague on All Your Houses

      I still remember a seminar I went to years ago in university. It was part of a nebulous course on ‘Health’ that some of us took as a soft route on the way to a bachelor’s degree. It was reputed to consist of essays and a true or false final examination. Also, because…

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  August 8, 2018

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  Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ, Daniel J. Dutton, disease, health, health care, health costs, Poverty, social services, Spending on health care, tautology, Tuberculosis

• What is the Merit of Originality?

  ‘I am not young enough to know everything,’ as Oscar Wilde once said, and maybe the rest of us aren’t either. It is often an unquestioned assumption that New trumps Old, that innovation usually leads to improvement, and that by standing on the shoulders of giants, the view is necessarily better. Clearer. But there is…

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  May 16, 2018

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  Aurum Institute Johannesburg South Africa, Erica Lessem, Gavin Churchyard, GeneXpert, global health care, health care, metaphor, Myth, myth of Baucis and Philemon, national empathy, Nature Journal, New vs Old, Oscar Wilde, South Africa, TB, technology, the Treatment Action Group, Tuberculosis, WHO, Wisdom, World Health Organization

• An Even More Modest Proposal

  How many of you remember being presented with Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ in English 101? It was a not so subtle satire of 18th century British treatment of the Irish, in which he hyperbolically –and anonymously- suggested that the Irish might be able to ease their economic distress by selling their children for food…

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  March 8, 2017

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  accessibility of health care, barefoot doctors, Canadian health care, cultural safety, Emergency care, health care, Jonathan Swift, non-professional help, PBS, Social Service, sub-Saharan Africa, volunteer community health workers

• The Justice of Justice

  Okay, I’m Canadian; I do not understand the objection to universal health care south of the border. And I certainly don’t know how a society that purports to believe in equal opportunity for all could be so resistant to accepting the inalienable right of every person to access affordable medical treatment, the right to a personal choice…

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  July 10, 2014

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  American Supreme Court decision on contraception, contraception, Declaration of Independence, health care, inalienable rights, Justice, religious beliefs, Supreme Court, universal health care, women’s rights

• Health Care Provisos

  I think one’s occupation tends to encourage a tightly focussed view of only one lane on the road, and a trust that it and it alone will lead to the intended destination. In my hitherto tunnelled vision, it had always been the Medical Model that dominated -to the exclusion of any rival Magisterium. But as time matures, I have…

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  June 14, 2013

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  allocation of health care resources, doctor’s role in health care provision, health care, Women’s Health issues

• Health care is…

  Health care is one thing,  access to health care is another. There are many barriers to its acquisition: in some countries it is money, in others,availability of services. But for most non life-threatening health care needs, an underlying problem in all I would suspect, is fear. Not so much fear for safety as a feeling of unease: is…

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  August 10, 2012

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  ambience, cultural safety, doctor trust, health care, health care accessibility