Opportunity for new collaboration between Ottawa, provinces
It’s time to rethink Canada’s health-care model before it suffers any further collapse, says the president of the Canadian Medical Association.
Dr. Katharine Smart said the current model is no longer adequate for the types of patients and the complex issues that doctors are seeing. She said it is resulting in ER closures and physicians choosing to leave their practices.
“We have a health-care system that was designed in the ’60s and hasn’t seen any really significant systems-level transformation since that time.”
