The Canadian Healthcare Paradox - barlowbooks

The Canadian Healthcare Paradox explores the structural flaws within Canada’s health system, from the perspective of a physician and senior healthcare administrator.

Dr. Rafiq Andani has practised medicine on the frontline of rural Manitoba, in tertiary urban hospitals, and in leadership within the province’s healthcare system. That broad experience led him the investigate a system that is failing. The signs are clear:

• Why are we waiting so long for a doctor’s appointment, or for surgery?
• How does access to medical care depend on where you live?
• Why are emergency wards jammed while hospital rooms are filled up with long-term patients?
• Why does the system reward activity more than outcomes?

This book offers professionals working inside Canada’s health system a framework for understanding why reforms fail to improve access and outcomes. The same framework shows how disciplined system can improve access the healthcare—the original medicare promise—and convert spending into value.