BC’s health care system is in crisis. Presented by
@dockevinmcleod
, Internal Medicine Specialist, Code Blue is an in-depth series that goes beyond the headlines, to explore how we got here and how can we fix it.
“My impression is that Canadians are incredibly proud of their healthcare system and I say yes you can be very proud of it if you’ve never had to use it.”
- Leyland Pitt, SFU Professor
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“In terms of number of general surgeons per population, we should have 305 in British Columbia. We have 197. So we need 105 general surgeons yesterday in full practice to meet the national standard”.
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“As a citizen, you would think we would have the same insight into wait times that a logistics manager at Amazon would have. They would know when the product order is placed, when it’s picked, when it’s shipped, when it’s delivered. But we don’t have that in healthcare.”
“ Back in 1993, it was ~10.4 weeks or 10.5 weeks from general practitioner to treatment by specialists in British Columbia. In 2023, it's 27.7 weeks in British Columbia, a delay of over six months for medically necessary treatment.”
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