: I take exception to a letter-writer’s opinion that nurse practitioners and salaried physicians can solve the primary-care crisis. These ideas were tried, and failed.
Nurse practitioners deserve good working conditions and fair compensation. However, these are taken from a different pot than the one used to pay physicians. The current system also compensates physicians to “supervise” NPs, adding further expense. As well, NPs often see fewer patients per hour than physicians, regardless of setting.
How do I know this? I am a retired family and ER physician who worked in underserviced communities for years.Why Hospitals Shouldn’t Be Nursing Homes Ontario would send alternate-level-of-care patients to long-term care homes they have not chosen. While it says they will wait there for a preferred home, the reality is that may never happen given the bed shortage and number of people in crisis. They may be stuck in a home without air conditioning or enough staff, where it may be difficult for family to visit or no one speaks their language.
Germany would solve a lot of its energy problems fast if they sent more heavy weapons to Ukraine. Oh, they hate war so much, so they can't.
The Windmills of Stephenville, Newfoundland The fact that Newfoundland and Labrador has the only Liberal provincial government in Canada should not be ignored in this 'green hydrogen' fantasia just introduced on the tarmac of the Stephenville Airport.
A friendly provincial government, a German Chancellor anxious for magic solutions to the Russian natural gas extortion racket and a credulous national press at the ready to cover this nonsense: However, the Globe to its credit has been skeptical.
Freeland Scholz Awwwww..
Possibly one of the greatest missed opportunities in Canadian history | National Post
Contrast: .'Australia spent the 2010s constructing nearly a dozen LNG export terminals to capitalize on an Asian push to adopt the fuel as a substitute for coal. In the first six months of 2022, LNG exports earned Australia the equivalent of $150 million per day.'