Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health CareWasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. It examines the development of the Canadian health care system, and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and whodecides (public, private, and patients). |
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... physicians . Although doctors determined who entered and left the hospital and what was done to them while they were there , very few of the physicians and surgeons were actually employed by these institutions . Most doctors were , and ...
... physicians . Although doctors determined who entered and left the hospital and what was done to them while they were there , very few of the physicians and surgeons were actually employed by these institutions . Most doctors were , and ...
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... physicians were united against a universal government plan and were its most visible and vociferous opponents . Although some physicians had been interested in such a plan during the Depression when too many of their patients could not ...
... physicians were united against a universal government plan and were its most visible and vociferous opponents . Although some physicians had been interested in such a plan during the Depression when too many of their patients could not ...
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... physicians ' behaviour - their billing practices and the acts they decide to perform.'53 Data from Ontario demon- strate that physicians ' incomes continued to increase , despite freezes on fees , primarily because doctors saw more ...
... physicians ' behaviour - their billing practices and the acts they decide to perform.'53 Data from Ontario demon- strate that physicians ' incomes continued to increase , despite freezes on fees , primarily because doctors saw more ...
Contents
The Wasting Away of Care | 1 |
The Development of Canadian Health Care | 12 |
The Institutions | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong Snippet view - 1996 |
Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong No preview available - 2010 |
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