B.C. Health Minister Silent As Muzzling Criticism Grows
Penny Daflos More B.C. health-care workers have spoken up publicly and on background confirming CTV News reporting on allegations of repercussions for speaking up about patient care and workplace conditions, but the health minister has not answered questions on the matter. The Doctors of BC and BC Nurses’ Union joined others in denouncing efforts to silence questions, […]
Canadian Medical Malpractice Law in 2011: Missing the Mark on Patient Safety
Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas Canadian tort law, as it applies to medical malpractice, appears relatively settled from a systems perspective; there is no “burning platform” driving major tort reform in this area of the law. There are at least six fac- tors which have contained the volume and cost of malpractice litigation in […]
British Columbia Doctor Lashes Out Against Authoritarian Bill 36
A. Brian Peckford Do you trust the government with your private health-care information? Do you trust the government to mandate your health care? Bill 36, passed by the B.C. government in November, gives the province unilateral power over doctors and your private health-care information, Dr. Jennifer Lush writes. … I am all for an overhaul […]
FDA Licensed Pfizer Vaccine Without Following Normal Approval Process, Documents Reveal
Zachary Stieber U.S. drug regulators acknowledged deviating from the normal vaccine approval process when dealing with Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot, according to newly disclosed documents. Weeks after Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced they started a rolling submission of documents for approval of their COVID-19 vaccine, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official penned a […]
Time to Rethink the Core Question: What is Health Care?
Alan Lash By now we’ve all heard many stories of health policy makers, medical institutions, and even doctors seemingly act against the best health interests of the people and their patients. Doctors ignoring the real facts that Covid was never that dangerous for large swaths of the population, and equally ignoring that the vaccinations may […]
What is Medicrime?
Debi Evans Medicine crime, or ‘medicrime’, is a crime which includes a wide range of illegal and illicit activities spanning many different communities and many environments, including the medical profession. The discussion of what medicrime actually is may well end up generating more questions. Historically, there has always been much debate, press attention and legislation […]
Has Big Pharma Hijacked Evidence-Based Medicine?
Joseph Mercola Cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra shares data on the Big Pharma takeover of modern medicine. Due to Big Pharma’s stronghold over health care, we’re facing what Malhotra calls a pandemic of misinformed doctors and unwittingly harmed and misinformed patients. Drug companies and medical device manufacturers aren’t in business to make patients happy; they’re beholden […]
Time to Trust Your Inner Expert
Eric Hussey … The problem in our current world is that “experts” demand our behaviors conform to their self-proclaimed expert prognostications, for which they are never held responsible in any way. No costs to those predicting the future are associated with prognostication errors. All costs of future-telling errors are borne by not-prognosticators. Those costs are […]
