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Experts call for a collection of racial and Indigenous identity in health care

A group of experts says all provinces and territories should collect data on racial and Indigenous identity to help address inequities in care, and the best way to do that is when someone applies for a health card or renews it. Doctor Andrew Pinto, lead author of a commentary published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, says Black and Indigenous patients have less access to care. He says allowing them to voluntarily provide identity data could help track racism in the health-care system. Pinto, who is founder of the non-profit Upstream Lab at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, says…
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The Power of Time – PHE America

(Article 3 of 5) Dr. Aubrey Shaw [right] with her mentor, Dr. Sharon Stoll [5-Part Article Series] People with physical disabilities hold limited positions as scholars, teachers, or leaders in physical education, recreation, and sports. Perhaps the reason is that the field is flooded with able-bodied people who think they know best. But do they? Michael Oliver, imminent writer, and scholar argued that people with physical disabilities should be the only ones in the field of disability studies because they have a bodily experience with disabilities. The following five-part article series shares the perspective of a scholar in the field…
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Compass Medical files for bankruptcy after sudden closure – Boston News, Weather, Sports

Health care provider Compass Medical has filed for bankruptcy after abruptly closing its practices last week, records show. Compass had locations in Quincy, Braintree, East Bridgewater, Easton, Middleborough and Taunton. It then confirmed an “imminent plan” to close its practices on Wednesday of last week, leaving hundreds without a job and thousands with health care headaches. The company is now facing a class-action lawsuit that has said, in part, Compass’ sudden closure placed patients “…in the chaotic, stressful, disruptive, and unsafe position of having to scramble to find new medical providers, to fill and/ or refill prescriptions, to schedule and/or…
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Protein Sparing Bread Bruschetta – Maria Mind Body Health

It warms my heart to see all of you enjoying my protein sparing bread! I have been eating it for over 15 years and to see it gets the attention now is really special to me! I have made my protein sparing bread into so many different recipes over the past decade and making it into Protein Sparing Bread Bruschetta is really delicious and easy! HOW TO MAKE PROTEIN SPARING BREAD BRUSCHETTA To make my Protein Sparing Bread Bruschetta, I used Further Food Gelatin! Further Food gelatin and collagen peptides are both excellent sources of collagen. Both their Collagen &…
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Hospitals Need to Focus on Social Drivers of American Health

Apepperan health care is broken. And American health care systems must transform radically to lead the repair. Let’s first look at the data: The US now spends more than $4 trillion a year on health care. That’s nearly 20% of gross domestic product. Yet US life expectancy lags literally dozens of other nations—including Portugal, Slovenia, and Turkey—by as much as seven years. If trends continue, we will drop to 64th in the world in life expectancy by 2040, though we will continue to spend significantly more per capita than nearly any other nation. Diagnosing this failure is not difficult. Nearly…
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Senior physician warns of a crisis in one of BC’s busiest ERs

The most senior emergency physician at one of British Columbia’s busiest hospitals has come forward to warn the public about the ongoing crisis inside the emergency department, saying the situation has deteriorated to the point where some patients are waiting as many as three days to be admitted to other wards. Dr. Urbain Ip said the understaffing and overcrowding problems in the emergency room at Surrey Memorial Hospital have him and his colleagues regularly going home “worried sick” about their patients. “Right now, if my loved one got sick, I’m not sure if I would send [them] to my hospital…