A recent front-page article in the New York Times conveyed grim news about patient safety. The first large-scale study of hospital safety in a decade concluded that care has not gotten significantly ...

A commentary by a retired professor of medicine and a director of B.C. Health Care Matters. Provision of safe births and adequate primary care are widely accepted minimum standards in most developed ...

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It’s harder to stop something after you’ve started it because whatever activity you’ve engaged in now has momentum going for it. Conversely, it’s harder to start something before you make the ...