How Hockey Can Save Healthcare: A Principle-Based Approach to Reforming the Canadian Healthcare System

ISBN-13: 9781483452784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str.

MD Stephen Pinney

Opis

Canadians are passionate about their healthcare system--and their hockey. While the Canadian medical system is a source of pride--based on ideals of universal coverage, public funding, and high-quality medical care--this treasured healthcare system is failing due to soaring costs, the challenge of an aging population, and poor care delivery. It needs a reality check. In How Hockey Can Save Healthcare, author and orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Stephen Pinney pulls the curtain back on the existing Canadian healthcare system and exposes its fundamental flaws--flaws that are the inevitable result of the system's history and evolution. Hockey, Canada's game, offers a potential principle-based solution to this national dilemma. How Hockey Can Save Healthcare proposes a path forward that would allow Canadians to redesign their healthcare system in a way that matches their ideals. That redesign, Dr. Pinney proposes, should reflect ideas most Canadians know and accept: the principles inherent in a Stanley Cup-winning hockey team.

Canadians are passionate about their healthcare system-and their hockey. While the Canadian medical system is a source of pride-based on ideals of universal coverage, public funding, and high-quality medical care-this treasured healthcare system is failing due to soaring costs, the challenge of an aging population, and poor care delivery. It needs a reality check. Dr. Stephen Pinney pulls the curtain back on the existing Canadian healthcare system and exposes its fundamental flaws. Basing his analysis on his own experience at the heart of the system, Dr. Pinney uses real-life stories, revealing facts, and insightful hockey analogies to highlight the profound issues confronting the current healthcare system.