In the video below, Dr. Anderson explores how healthcare system issues can impact patient outcomes.
Category Archives: Health and Wellbeing
MIA: COVID19 Vaccine
If you have not had the opportunity to read the opinion piece that Dr. Parks highlights above, you can do so here.
An Unwanted Milestone
Click here to read the article.
Measles Vaccine- Why Bother?
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More Measle Hotspots
Here is the link to the article in the Edmonton Journal.
Important Thread by Dr. Parks
If you have not read this thread by Dr. Parks, an emergency physician in Alberta, you may wish to do so here. It will be time well spent.
A Shopping Spree to Remember
68 Calgary families participated in a special shopping spree at Toys R Us thanks to a joint initiative by the Starlight Foundation and Toys R Us. Check out this CTV news article to read more about this event.
Safe consumption site – Stay or go?
There is much debate about whether safe consumption sites should exist and if so where. The site at in Calgary at Sheldon Chumier Center is the center of one of these debates. Here is an article by the CBC that looks at this very important issue.
Waiting for a response?
If you have not yet heard from the medical office where you have been referred, like thousands of others, your referral may not have been processed correctly. The question now being asked is, “Why did this occur?” This is the something the Health Quality Council of Alberta is going to investigate.
Thoughts about Alberta’s Healthcare
In this TikTok video, “Boots on the Ground” looks at the state of healthcare in Alberta as the provincial government privatizes healthcare. He describes what is happening in Alberta as “playing politics with healthcare” and notes that the outcome can be people getting hurt and/or dying.
