On July 12, John Staples witnessed a senior in a wheelchair dying in the waiting room of the emergency department of a Fredericton, N.B. hospital. As a result, the provincial health minister was replaced. “They say we have free health care,” Staples said. “It seems that it is coming at the cost of people’s lives.” Read More
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Shaver: Fixing Canada's health-care crisis means more private access — or a lot more federal support
Published in B.C. Court of Appeal, Columnists, Dr. Brian Day, health care, health-care workers, nurses, Opinion, private medicine and two-tier health care
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