¶ … future of health care delivery in Canada, the country that you intend to practice medicine.
The Canadian health care's most significant issue is it's disconnect of communication between medical practitioners and patients, on the one hand, and the different hierarchies and departments of medical care on the other.
The Primary Care Advisory Committee, for instance, reported last year that primary care services are becoming more fragmented with fewer doctors being sufficiently motivated enough to involve themselves in the full range of services such as hospital-based services, emergency services, or obstetrical services. Meanwhile, the health care team, including nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, Physiotherapists, family doctors, and others are not structured or trained to fill in the gaps and collaborate in order...
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has taken steps to improve in this area and have committed themselves to providing seamless service for clients. One of the first steps thy have taken in this area has included training and the development of legislation for nurse practitioners. The rest of the country still has to follow their route. (Commission on the Future of Healthcare in Canada).
This disconnectedness between primary care services and between collaboration of doctors is seen in almost any medical institution anywhere in the country and was documented last year by Simpson in his post on the greatest problem facing the Canadian medical system. Simpson described a typical day of service and noted that one day Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, a physician at the…
