Dear Colleagues, Your College is a member of the Wait Times Alliance (WTA). I had the privilege of representing you at a recent event on Parliament Hill to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Health Accord. The most recent data show positive change by the provinces in wait times for 4 of the 5 procedures singled out as opportunities for improvement (radiation therapy, coronary artery bypass g...

The care of patients with chronic disease is one of the most urgent medical challenges in the United States. Chronic illness accounts for most of the demand, expense, and investments in scientific discovery. The well-documented shortcomings in medical quality and safety fall heavily on the shoulders of patients with these conditions (1). Meanwhile, the Medicare program moves steadily toward ins...

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Photo by Naveed Ahmed on Unsplash ABSTRACT India has had a solid standard for medical ethics since the birth of Ayurvedic holistic science over 5000 years ago. The country’s views healthcare policy, counsel how to deal with patients, and what constitutes good behavior within profession stem from ancient outlines practice. These “codes conduct” were heavily influenced religious spiritual practic...

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In 1955, Egon Brunswik presented a paper in which he argued that neglect of the environment and over emphasis of the organism was the major downfall of cognitive psychology. His critiques have largely been ignored and research is discussed that demonstrates the same organismic-asymmetry Brunswik detailed in 1955. This research is discussed in attribution terms since experimental psychologists m...

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Laurel Gleason contends that deliberative polling constrains the autonomy of participants and substitutes the ideas and agendas of ‘‘experts’’ for those of the deliberators. However, the format and informational constraints faced by participants in deliberative forums are no worse, and are in many ways better, than those faced by ordinary citizens. The real problem with deliberative polls is th...

Peer review is no panacea; every generation must reevaluate empirical evidence in the context of its own time. For a century, quantum mechanics has defied common sense. However, common sense dictates that the stability of molecular bonds contradicts probabilistic, leaping electrons. In fact, Bohr’s quantum leap scenario violates the second law of thermodynamics and contradicts phase transition ...