Team Work

As I have said here before;Socialized Medicine Began In Alberta we need to put doctors on salary, reduce the restrictions of grade point averages and the guild like control that universities and the CMA has over who qualifies for medical education, and look at creating medical services that are community owned and operated.

It appears I am not alone in believing this is the real reform we need to apply to healthcare in Canada. Of course this report doesn't quite go that far but it's a beginning.

Joint health-care training applauded by watchdog
Thu, February 9, 2006
Michael Decter will give a public speech tomorrow at the University of Western Ontario.
By JOHN MINER, FREE PRESS REPORTER

Providing separate training for different health-care professions makes as much sense as providing separate training for members of a hockey team, the chairperson of the Health Council of Canada said yesterday.

Praising the University of Western Ontario for starting to train different professions together, Michael Decter said it is important to build teamwork from the start.

"If you are going to train a hockey team by having a school for defencemen in one city and a school for goalies in another and a school for forwards in another, you wouldn't expect them to play as a team when you put them together," he said.

"Similarly, if we train doctors and nurses and pharmacists and physiotherapists all separately and don't involve them in any kind of teamwork through their training, then it shouldn't be surprising that they find it hard when they get out into the real world to form up into teams to practice."


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