Is that CT scan too expensive? Is the waiting list too long? Cancer treatment too scarce?
Physicians may blame cutbacks when their patients encounter difficulties receiving medical …

Lawyer Karen Capen says funding cutbacks that have affected the services physicians can
provide may cause legal problems for Canada's doctors. If cutbacks affect the care that is …

While it once seemed little more than an idle threat, rationing in health care has emerged as
a realistic prospect. At the very least, the Canadian health care system is headed toward an …

This paper explores how the Canadian courts have responded to resource allocation
decisions that have impacted on patients. While there have been few Canadian cases, those …

No credible claim can assuage the assertion that medical errors beleaguer the health care
industry and pose grave danger to patients. 1 As with any issue that impacts both a …

Health care in America is an expensive, complicated, inefficient, tangled mess-everybody
says so. Patients decry its complexity,'health care executives bemoan its lack of coherence …

CMAJ invites contributions to Dispatches from the medical front, in which physicians and
other health care providers can provide eyewitness glimpses of medical frontiers, whether …

Residents of Ontario expect physicians and hospitals to provide the best available treatment
based on the highest standards of current medical practice while using the latest innovations …

Lisa Young goes to the hospital because she fears she is in premature labor at only 25
weeks gestation. In her previous pregnancy she had premature labor that required …

Americans are experienced at fi xing blame when things go wrong. Our political system lets
us throw out the leaders whose lack of judgment, skill, or honesty seems to have been the …