Our Healthcare System Is Failing

Our healthcare system is failing.

Our Broken Health Care System Is Failing People With Cancer

The mother of your child’s best friend. The man who waited on you at the hardware store last week. Your brother-in-law. The woman in front of you in the check-out line at the market. Your favorite teacher in high school. The homeless woman who’s always at your subway stop. Your doctor. The eight year old son of the family three doors down. Your co-worker at the plant who brings doughnuts for ev...

Ending the chaos in our healthcare system.

Bone metastases: Are we failing our patients?

Many patients with advanced cancer will develop bone metastases and associated complications, including severe pain and debilitating skeletal-related events (SREs), which require radiotherapy, surgery or changes to antineoplastic regimens [1–3]. Fortunately, there are effective treatments to prevent or delay the onset of SREs. Several intravenous and oral bisphosphonates have been used for over...

How Big is Our System.

The lead essay by Williams and colleagues – along with a wealth of thoughtful and insightful commentaries – makes clear that informal caregivers (friends, family members and even neighbours) are a critical resource to our healthcare system. Although debate remains on how best to support caregivers, the essays in this issue of Healthcare Papers also make it clear that we could be doing it better...