Prognosis : the current state and shaky future of Canada's health care system

Stories about hospital bed shortages and long emergency room waiting times abound, but what is going on inside the system? How do hospitals cope with funding shortages? How are GPs and specialists paid, and for what? Do doctors cover for incompetent colleagues? Why is the debate about private health care so polarized—and uninformed? These and other questions Canadians have about health care will be answered in the medical equivalent of The Naked Investor. Filled with real-life stories, Prognosis will enlighten and enrage those concerned about the state of our system. From the Back Cover: Prognosis is the first book of its kind to be researched and written not by a medical professional or politician but by a consumer. Written in the author's trademark provocative and impassioned style, Prognosis will open your eyes to all that is wrong-and much that is right-with this country's medical system