Health committee  So to follow up on the points that have been made, a very robust electronic medical record would also help clinicians understand the breadth of things that are being fed to the patient. That would help curb some of the drug abuse, because if I'm getting opioids from three differe

Health committee  But the work of the federal government isn't done because you acknowledged just a moment ago that we have advanced practice nurses. So we have a shortage of psychiatrists in the country, or at the very least a distribution problem. But advanced practice nurses in psychiatry are t

Health committee  We need to have people understand each other's roles because if you don't know what I'm doing, it's kind of hard for you to work with me. You have to be confident that I'm competent, able to do the things that you think I ought to be doing, no matter where I trained or worked in

Health committee  If I could just jump in, we have to understand that there are different types of practice settings, right? For half of the doctors in this country, they often rely on larger infrastructures, like hospitals and so on. But I know for a fact that the Royal College, much like the C

Health committee  Again, for those physicians who are not practising independently, but functioning in a hospital setting.... Some of our very own board members at the Royal College who work in institutional settings would love to work with a physician assistant, but it's not on the books because

Health committee  I referred to the expanding scope of practice of nurses in a variety of areas, beyond front-line medicine. In fact, the Canadian Nurses Association now recognizes more than 20 specialties. Why can we not coordinate the effects of that expanding scope of practice with health work

Health committee  Thank you. We are observing a lot more collaboration with the traditional and complementary and alternative medicine world, especially when we are dealing with populations who are either indigenous or in rural remote communities. We've actually drilled into some of the literat

Health committee  Again, we have a few minutes to answer something that would require days of conversation. We have made much progress, and you would acknowledge that we have many pockets of excellence. I would submit that what we often do is to pull the cake out of the oven before it's fully ba

Health committee  It is something that requires sustained effort and we don't have anyone who has agreed to take this on as a commitment to Canadians. Those of us sitting at this table are chugging away. The research that we're doing on physician unemployment is self-funded. I do a lot of it durin

Health committee  Mr. Chair, committee members, thank you for this committee's work on this very important topic, and the opportunity to present today. The Royal College, as Marc Lalonde called it a number of years ago, is one of the best-kept secrets in the country. We're trying to open our kimo