Publications/Articles

Hospital administrators wield great power over physicians to whom they grant hospital privileges to practice in their public institutions. It thus ...

There are various reasons why physicians who are trained and licensed in the United States would want to practise in Canada. Higher salaries and le...

At least one media outlet has reported that, at the end of March, the Ontario government will cut funding that allows ER doctors to provide virtual...

Recently announced plans by Ontario to welcome more healthcare professionals from other provinces is overdue and great news for Ontario p...

Foreign Nursing Fast-Track Initiative This sidestepping of the usual rules regarding nurse certification is welcome news and comes after collaborat...

What is the foreign physician accreditation project? Efforts being made by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada to enco...

Most Canadians are aware Canada needs more medical doctors. What they might not realize is that residency issues are creating a real bottlenec...

If Canada is serious about addressing the shortage of primary health-care providers, the federal and provincial governments must commit to a new funding model for nurse practitioners (NPs). And soon.

Canada’s current model for providing health care is unsustainable. Despite having one of the highest per-capita spending levels of developed countries, long wait times, overcrowded emergency departments and a shortage of family doctors are issues plaguing most communities across the nation.

The unjustified and abhorrent terror on Ukraine is an attempt to wipe out the history of Ukraine. Erasing history is how history will be permitted ...

Abstract The administrative structure of Ontario hospitals centralizes power into the hands of a few key players – and physicians who practic...

Abstract The decision by the William Osler Health System to strip a physician of a medical director role after he criticized the province’s h...

Abstract Judicial review of decisions made by administrative decision-makers serves as a safeguard to ensure that public decision-makers are operat...

Introduction In January 2015, the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care (the ‘Minister’), Dr. Eric Hoskins, appointed a Task Force on t...

Introduction Union membership is supposed to offer greater bargaining power for employees who join the union and surrender to the bargaining agent ...

Paper originally presented at OBA Program entitled: "Critical Issues in Health Law: A National Summit" in May 2007 and reproduced with OBA permissi...

Recent announcement of the amendments to the OHIP Audit Provisions requires more than a brief statement saying “A New Fair Audit System Propo...

INTRODUCTION Today I propose to discuss selected regulatory changes to the Medical Review Committee that have reduced the MRC to a process-driven v...

The Ontario Health Insurance Plan’s billing audit process, as administered by the Medical Review Committee (MRC), has recently undergone subs...

In Ontario’s past and present child protection legislation, physicians are included in the list of professionals designated to protect children and report their beliefs, suspicions, or knowledge of child abuse and neglect. Ontario’s recent legislative amendments broaden the definition of child abuse and thereby widen the scope of the duty to report.