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                             ISSUES DISCUSSED 
                            
 HEALTHY CHOICES
 Canada's Health Care System                        <01health -budget>
 Consumer choice about treatments covered           <01health -consumers>
 Surgical procedures, which should get funding?     <01health -procedures>
 Physicians, are there too many?                    <01health -new doctors>
 User fees and emergency visits                     <01health -after-hours>
 National health objectives, do we need them?       <01health -objectives>
 Sickness prevention                                <01health -sickness>

 THE MECHANISM OF MEDICINE
 Health care and the Constitution                   <03health -Consti>
 Health care and the provinces                      <03health -sole>

 TO CATCH A SWEDE
 ParticipAction's success story                     <04health -started>
 Canadians, living longer                           <04health -generally>
 Canadians, life expectancy                         <04health -vary>
 Canadians, smoking less                            <04health -nutshell>
 Canadians, drinking statistics                     <04health -alcohol>
 Canadians, accident statistics                     <04health -accident>
 Canadians, eating habits                           <04health -kitchen>

 TOO MANY, TOO FAST, TOO MUCH?
 Physicians, are they driving health costs up?      <06health -driving>
 Physicians, say they're political scapegoats       <06health -scape>
 Walk-In Clinics                                    <06health -first>
 Docs in a Box                                      <06health -docs>
 Physicians, oversupply                             <06health -over>
 Physicians, payments to                            <06health -soared>
 Revolving door medicine                            <06health -revolving>
 Physicians, revolving door                         <06health -revolving>
 Unnecessary services                               <06health -unnecess>
 Fee-for-service                                    <06health -opposed>
 Physicians, salary                                 <06health -salary>
 Physicians, how should they be paid?               <06health -alternative>

 TAKE TWO MINUTES AND DON'T CALL ME IN THE MORNING
 Treatment, more people seeking it                  <08health -across>
 Colds, cost of treatment                           <08health -treating>
 Consumer choice about treatments covered           <08health -Medicaid>
 Coronary bypass, many not necessary                <08health -coronary>
 Educated patient, how to become one                <08health -educated>
 Physician, challenging advice                      <08health -challenge>
 Interactive video for patients 		    <08health -video>

 THE CHROMIUM CAGE
 Medical technology, not fully evaluated	    <10health -estimates>
 Medical technology, no government review of 95%    <10health -review>
 Drugs, spending on                                 <10health -soared>
 Magnetic resonance imaging, costs of		    <10health -magnetic>
 Medical technology, marketing of		    <10health -marketing>
 X-ray enhancing liquids			    <10health -liquids>
 Lithotripters, cost of 			    <10health -litho>
 Medical technology, testing of 		    <10health -bureau>
 Tissue plaminogen activator			    <10health -tissue>

 THE NATIONAL HEALTH - UNDER THE WEATHER, UNDER THE GUN
 National Health, the delay			    <12health -current>
 National Health, history of			    <12health -medicare>
 Britain, National Health			    <12health -medicare>
 National Health, critics of			    <12health -critics>
 National Health and Margaret Thatcher              <12health -Thatcher>
 National Health, changes in                        <12health -April>
 National Health and self-governing trusts          <12health -self-gov>

 THE U.S. - DOES THE PRESCRIPTION NEED CHANGING?
 U.S. health care, change needed?                   <13health -surveys>
 U.S. health care, skyrocketing premiums            <13health -premium>
 U.S. health care and lack of insurance             <13health -no heal>
 U.S. health care, cost of                          <13health -basic>
 Canada's health care system, too expensive?        <13health -disruptive>
 Pepper Commission                                  <13health -Pepper>
 U.S. health care, task forces looking into         <13health -task forces>
 Physicians for a National Health Care              <13health -Steffie>
 U.S. health care reform, Gallup poll               <13health -Gallup>
 Services Employees International Union             <13health -mushy>

 USER PAY, USER WAIT
 Canada's health system compared to U.S.           <14health>
 U.S. health care response to money                <14health -clink>
 Texas Heart Institute                             <14health -concern>
 U.S. health care, lack of insurance               <14health -no health>
 Harvard study on heart disease victim wait        <14health -Harvard>
 Canada's health system costs relative to U.S.     <14health -Evans>
 U.S. health care, amount of red tape              <14health -account>


 THE RICH MAN, THE EYE AND THE NEEDLE
 Gimbel Eye Centre                                  <15health -Gimbel>
 Gimbel, Howard                                     <15health -Howard>
 Seventh Day Adventist                              <15health -Seventh>

 FAMILY FINANCES
 Physicians, family practise                        <16health>
 Family practise, income from                       <16health -grosses>
 Family practise, costs of                          <16health -cost>

 THE RURAL ROUTE
 Physicians, rural practises                        <17health -village>
 Rural practises and residents                      <17health -undergrad>
 Rural practises, incentives                        <17health -program>

 GOOD HELP IS HARD TO FIND
 Health care specialists, shortage of               <18health>
 Radiation therapy technologists, shortage of       <18health -world-wide>
 Technologists, shortage of                         <18health -skilled par>
 Technologists, Canada raids U.K                    <18health -Zeal>
 Technologists, U.S. raiding Canada                 <18health -raids>
 Technologists, shortage of and backlog caused      <18health -Princess>
 Perfusionists, shortage of                         <18health -heart-lung>
 Technologists, job opportunities                   <18health -job op>
 Technologists, why shortages?                      <18health -cite>

 THE CINDERELLA SYNDROME
 Nurses, roles change with time and place           <19health>
 Nurses, in North                                   <19health -Tuktoy>
 Nurses, as second-class citizen                    <19health -second>
 Nurses, relation to health care costs              <19health -mounts>
 Physicians, relationship to nurses                 <19health -gods>
 Nurses, day-night treatment of                     <19health -night-and>
 Nurses, giving them more responsibility            <19health -solid>
 Nurses, study of compared to doctors               <19health -Spitzer>
 Nurses, as replacements for general practioners    <19health -Stoddart>
 Nurse practioner, history of                       <19health -scene>

 CRITICAL RESEARCH ON THE CRITICAL LIST
 Research funding being cut                         <20health>
 Tsui, Lap-Chee                                     <20health -Tsui>
 Riordan, Jack                                      <20health -Riordan>
 Cystic fibrosis, gene responsible for discovered   <20health -gene>
 Research, underfunded                              <20health -chronic>
 Researchers, demoralized                           <20health -demoral>
 Research, infrastructure crumbling                 <20health -strapped>
 Research, funding disjointed                       <20health -disjoint>
 Research, funding misspent                         <20health -discrep>
 Research, funding track record of Mulroney         <20health -Mulron>
 Research, funding realtive to GNP                  <20health -GNP>
 Research, recommendations for increased funding    <20health -councils>
 Research, cuts to funding                          <20health -lopped>
 Research, who gets the money?                      <20health -peer>
 Research, corporate funding                        <20health -fosters>

 MEDICAL MILESTONES
 Medical discoveries in Canada                      <22health>
 Banting and Best                                   <22health -Banting>
 Insulin                                            <22health -insulin>
 Sir William Osler                                  <22health -Osler>
 Pablum                                             <22health -Pablum>
 Heparin                                            <22health -Heparin>
 Bethune, Norman                                    <22health -Bethune>
 Electron microscope                                <22health -electron>
 Penfield, Wilder                                   <22health -Penfield>
 Barr Body                                          <22health -Barr>
 Barr, Murray                                       <22health -Barr>
 Curare                                             <22health -Curare>
 Hypothermia                                        <22health -hypother>
 Vinca Alkaloids                                    <22health -vinca>
 Noble, Robert                                      <22health -Noble>
 Cardiac Pacemaker                                  <22health -pacemaker>
 Endocrine hormones                                 <22health -endocrine>
 Collip, J.B.                                       <22health -Collip>
 Blue Baby Operation                                <22health -blue baby>
 Mustard, Bill                                      <22health -Mustard>
 Lung transplants                                   <22health -lung trans>
 Pearson, F.G.                                      <22health -Pearson>
 Cooper, Joel                                       <22health -Joel
 Genetics                                           <22health -genetics>
 Worton, Ronald                                     <22health -Worton>
 Ray, Peter                                         <22health -Ray>

 HAMILTON'S HUMANITARIAN HEALTH
 McMaster University's medical school, its approach <24health -phil>
 Hoskins, Eric                                      <24health -Hoskins>
 McMaster University, entrance requirements         <24health -premedical>
 McMaster University, are its doctors different?    <24health -ter-trained>

 MENTAL HEALTH ON HOLD
 Mental health treatment takes a backseat           <25health>
 Mental health treatment, the waiting list          <25health -countless>
 Mental health, few treatment choices               <25health -few>
 Mental health, Ontario health plan                 <25health -Ontario>
 Mental health, Alberta treatment                   <25health -Alberta>
 Child psychiatrist shortage                        <25health -frustration>
 Mental health, adolescent crime                    <25health -crime>
 Mental health, Reaching for Solutions              <25health -reaching>
 Reaching for Solutions                             <25health -reaching>
 Children First                                     <25health -ren Fir>
 Mental health, Children First                      <25health -ren Fir>
 Mental health, British Columbia                    <25health -British>

 THE HOLISTIC HUSTLE
 Holistic medicine bunk but popular                 <26health>
 Total Health '91                                   <26health -Total>
 Holistic medicine, its scope                       <26health -focus>
 Holistic medicine and fraud                        <26health -fraud>
 Holistic medicine, popularity                      <26health -fringes>
 Holistic medicine, Canada Health Monitor poll      <26health -poll>
 Holistic medicine, on increase                     <26health -Stewart>
 Holistic medicine, why popular                     <26health -Ohlhauser>
 Holistic medicine, remedies dangerous, useless     <26health -Loma>
 Holistic medicine, iridology                       <26health -iridol>
 Holistic medicine, homeopathy                      <26health -homeopathy>
 Jensen, Bernard                                    <26health -Jensen>
 Holistic medicine, energy medicine                 <26health -electric>
 Hanswille, Gerhard                                 <26health -Hanswille>
 Roy, Leo                                           <26health -Leo>
 Bricker, Trudy                                     <26health -Bricker>
 Roland, David                                      <26health -Rowland>
 Donsbach, Kurt                                     <26health -Donsbach>

 HEALTH CARE AND POVERTY
 Poverty, and health care                           <28health>
 Poverty, Tommy Douglas                             <28health -Douglas>
 Medical Care Insurance Act                         <28health -chain>
 Poverty, infant mortality                          <28health -mortality>
 Poverty, suicide                                   <28health -suicide>
 Poverty, prenatal classes                          <28health -prenatal>
 Poverty, cancers cardiovacular diseases            <28health -cardio>
 Poverty, social aspects of health                  <28health -vaccinate>
 Poverty, Ontario health strategy                   <28health -Rae>
 Poverty, Canadian programs                         <28health -health gap>
 Poverty, native health                             <28health -tuber>

 NORTHERN CARE
 Northern Canada, nursing stations                  <29health -nursing>
 Northern Canada, health record                     <29health -abysmal>
 Northern Canada, housing and health                <29health -ventil>
 Northern Canada, smoking                           <29health -epidemic>
 Northern Canada, heart disease                     <29health -heart>
 Northern Canada, healers                           <29health -aboriginal>

 THE GREYING OF HEALTH CARE
 Elderly, health care                               <30health>
 Elderly, healing at home                           <30health -blind>
 Elderly, Statistics Canada figures                 <30health -stat>
 Elderly, cost of health care                       <30health -expensive>
 Elderly, instituitionalization                     <30health -unbearable>
 Elderly, Victoria Health Project                   <30health -ia Heal>
 Elderly, Wellness Centres                          <30health -wellness>

