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By William Hogg MD Just about everyone by now realizes that there is something seriously wrong with Medicare in Canada. Ontario is a case in point. The eHealth scandal, in which a billion dollars was spent on incompetent and corrupt … Continue reading →

By William Hogg  ,MD reporting from Kirkland Lake, Ontario   If you were a toolmaker, would you remain in a space without a factory to work in? Not likely. Trends to outsourcing aside, you’d head to a space with a … Continue reading →

By Dr. William Hogg – dare I write it? – MD Some 30 years ago, I received a letter from OHIP, Ontario’s Medicare bureaucracy, with the salutation, “Dear Health Care Worker.” It was sort of like a punch in the … Continue reading →

(Every year for most of the last century, Crystal Beach in Fort Erie was a summer fun place for residents in Niagara, Ontario, Buffalo and beyond. It is gone with the wind now, but this column may help bring a … Continue reading →

(From an address Dr. William Hogg presented to public hearings hosted this March 9 by the Ontario Health Coalition in Welland Ontario, as part of a series tof public hearings he not-for-profit, province-wide coalition is holding in regions across Ontario … Continue reading →

By William Hogg Right here, in the Niagara area, in our very midst, we have one of the finest symphony orchestras in the world. And it performs in perhaps the best sounding concert hall in the world. That latter fact … Continue reading →

By William Hogg, MD Most people in Niagara see the Niagara Health System as an ogre.   Health care delivery here is bad. The lay-administrators of Niagara Health System (NHS), who should be focused on balancing finances properly, have stuck … Continue reading →

 By Doug Draper Reilly Anzovino would have been 19 years old this Jan. 26. Some of her friends gathered at her home in Fort Erie on that day to celebrate her life and, at the same time, console grieving members … Continue reading →

By William Hogg, MD The people in Niagara’s southern tier are beginning to realize that dying in an ambulance today is more likely to happen than it was just a few months ago. A most tragic death was that of … Continue reading →

By William F. Hogg There are some groups of people who set themselves up as critics of the language. They pour through old euphemisms and new technical acronyms and ‘vote’ them out of the dictionary. Hopelessly, I might add.