Physicians say the proposed changes will also be cumbersome and force them to give up
research and teaching in order to meet patient quotas. A mathematical question will enter …

Physicians in provinces other than Quebec may wonder if the glowing reports about
Quebec's Medicare, put forth by some politicians and newspapers during the long Canada …

H ow many doctors are needed to meet the demands of a publicly funded health care
system? Everyone is asking the question, but who can supply the answer? With provincial …

The Quebec health care scheme is often considered a model by Canadian health care
planners-even as a blueprint for a future pan-Canadian system of state medicine. Medicare …

The long-standing and often emotional debate surrounding the federal government's
proposal to restructure its health care legislation will enter its final phase this fall with the …

Family medicine is increasingly being done by nurse practitioners and physician assistants,
both groups who have magnitudes of order less training than family doctors. And now we …

What can a physician do about controlling health care costs? This is a question that is being
vigorously debated today and will likely be even more vigorously debated tomorrow. There …

For the first and second factors, we can review the current practice locations of all Canadian
medical graduates from the 16 medical schools from 1991 to 1995. Evidence1, 2 suggests …

Editorials was smaller, while the number of physicians returning to Canada was greater,
than in each of the previous 2 years: 731 physicians left Canada in 1996, 659 in 1997 and …

Background: In 1989, governments in Canada perceived an economic crisis in health care
funding and commissioned two economists, Drs. Barer and Stoddart, to review policies …