Sep 7, 2017
Doctors' capitalist ethos and the fight for a fairer tax code
Yves Engler
While nurses defend public health care, doctors have long promoted a capitalist model of medicine that maximizes their wealth and power.
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May 13, 2016
Trade deals are bad medicine: Patents, profits and payola physicians
Michael Butler
Big Pharma influences what doctors prescribe -- a practice that needs to change.
Aug 26, 2015
Canadian doctors divest from fossil fuels
Jesse McLaren
The Canadian Medical Association has voted to divest, calling attention to climate health and urging climate action
Jul 1, 2015
Health care's complicated relationship with technology
Here's a quick, amateur medical diagnosis: the health-care system is ailing when it comes to technology.
Apr 3, 2015
Christian doctors angry they can no longer abandon their patients
A Christian doctors' group is throwing a tantrum over a new requirement that Ontario physicians must refer patients appropriately when they refuse to provide a health-care service.
Aug 5, 2014
'Conscientious objection' when it comes to reproductive health is not conscientious
Joyce Arthur
When doctors refuse to provide reproductive health-care services based on personal beliefs, most people call it "conscientious objection." In reality, it is the opposite of conscientious.
Aug 1, 2014
Doctors do not have the right to discriminate and deny basic health care
When doctors refuse to provide reproductive health-care services based on personal beliefs, most people call it "conscientious objection." In reality, it is the opposite of conscientious.
Jan 23, 2014
Anti-poverty movement, meet the culture of medicine
Vanessa Brcic
Many voices are calling for attention to poverty reduction and a living wage. But what happens when you add doctors into this conversation? Progress and challenges both.
Mar 19, 2013
Canadian doctors launch court challenge of cuts to refugee health care
Redeye
Last June, the federal government drastically cut health-care coverage for refugee claimants in Canada. Since then doctors have been unable to help hundreds of patients with treatable conditions.
May 28, 2012
Doctors protest cuts to health care for refugees
Redeye
On May 11, about 30 doctors marched into the Toronto office of the Federal Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver and occupied the office while another 50 doctors waited outside.
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