Health committee  Only to say that would be a perfect ending. I fully agree with what my colleague just said.

Health committee  Medical practice has to be decompartmentalized. Services are provided by pharmacists, and nurse practitioners are already collaborating, at least in Quebec. What we're looking for is a clearly established line of attack that will give children rapid and effective access to a heal

Health committee  We need to interact with children personally. While the diagnosis may be easy to establish, even virtually, we should not lose sight of the human aspect of medicine in our dealings with parents when explaining a diagnosis and the serious consequences thereof. That's my concern ab

Health committee  You've just pointed out how important teachers and the school system are for children's health. You mentioned two problematic conditions that occur frequently, but there are many others. Teachers are under a lot of pressure at the moment. They need to be capable of dealing with b

Health committee  The threat comes from people treating all this as normal and trivial. In my office when I'm dealing with parents, I have to challenge the 12 hours of screen time a day on a regular basis. Everyone looks at me as if I were crazy. Just as we practise prevention by advocating physi

Health committee  I fully agree with Dr. Feldman. We ought not to deprive ourselves of these resources, but we need to be careful, because we have standards to meet. We are having trouble meeting demand, because currently, we expect nothing less than perfection. As doctors, that's what guides us,

Health committee  Yes, I'd like to add that there are some very specific client groups for whom technology was used, particularly for follow‑up treatment. We were discussing the problem of too much screen time among adolescents, but they can sometimes be more flexible because they're accustomed to

Health committee  I believe it is a matter of concern, as confirmed by the work of the committee today. From province to province, the problems are the same. The fact that we are now looking at these issues leads me to hope that major funding will be forthcoming. It is needed. We don't have a choi

Health committee  Yes, there have been some from the start. We're lucky because retrospectively, we've been in a position to evaluate the situation over the past two years. We were able to observe, even clinically, very young children who had trouble relating. They would draw pictures of children,

Health committee  Clearly, the priority has to be children, one way or another. I believe that the provinces have to be free to take action as they see fit. As I mentioned, there are definitely some provinces for which funding should be increased by more than the 30% earmarked for children. Perha

Health committee  There are several aspects to your question. I agree with you. The numbers and the rankings are not what I am most concerned about. We discussed deaths, for example among highly premature infants. I think we need to get away from the numbers and begin with the outcomes. We need to

Health committee  I'll speak to you about the challenges of greatest concern to us in the delivery of health care. As we know, in the early stages of life, there are many more premature births, chronic problems like encephalopathy or exploited children. These children are rescued and sent home, bu

Health committee  I would add that mental health definitely has an impact on physical health, but that the reverse is also true: physical health has an influence on mental health. Another point worth making is that the mental health of parents also has an impact on the mental health of their child

Health committee  I really liked the way you put it, meaning that the pandemic exacerbated an existing problem. Let's go back to adolescents. There are many hypotheses about this, but what mainly allows adolescents to develop and grow towards adulthood is the ability to leave home. That's because

Health committee  Yes, thank you. I'm shaking my head because that situation and the milk shortage became a major problem. We worked hard on the issue during the shortage of hydrolyzed formulas for infants with an intolerance to cow's milk proteins. The same was the case for Tylenol and Advil. W