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Shawn Whatley, MD
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Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, author of
"When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing,"
and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is also a past president of the Ontario Medical Association.
The Only Rational Response to Truckers’ Freedom Convoy
Commentary Anyone who serves the public learns how to manage upset customers. When someone says you hurt them, ...
Canada
February 7, 2022
Fix Our Failed Health System Instead of Protecting It With Lockdowns
Commentary New variants of SARS-CoV-2 hit England last fall. Over 70 percent of those infected in England’s second ...
Viewpoints
March 22, 2021
Mask Laws: Necessary or Nonsense?
Commentary COVID-19 has caused two pandemics. The first infects our bodies. The second corrupts our minds. A respiratory ...
Viewpoints
November 5, 2020
Different Regional Experiences Require Different Pandemic Responses
Commentary The first wave of COVID-19 hit at the peak of hospital overcrowding. Decades of trimming the meat ...
Viewpoints
October 6, 2020
Asleep at the Switch in a Time of Crisis
Commentary The federal government can’t win with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel ...
Viewpoints
March 17, 2020
Coronavirus: What We Need Is Rational Prep, Not Irrational Panic
Commentary As COVID-19 sweeps the globe, many of us wrestle with whether to cancel our trips to Florida ...
Canada
March 4, 2020
Relaxed Response to Coronavirus Befits State of Canada’s Health Care
Commentary Coronaviruses are not new and rarely cause problems. But they can be deadly. The United States declared the ...
Viewpoints
February 2, 2020
Are We All Socialists When It Comes to Medicare?
Commentary Politicians have chased the medicare merry-go-round for decades. Each party pours on money or passes new legislation. ...
Viewpoints
December 9, 2019
Socialized Medicine: What’s in a Name?
Last fall, Jim Carrey, the well-known comedian, talked on “Real Time with Bill Maher” about Canadian single-payer medical care. ...
Canada
November 1, 2019
Health Care: The Most Important Non-Issue in Canada’s Election
With a health care system in desperate need of innovation, every candidate competes to avoid saying anything new. ...
Canada
September 30, 2019
Shawn Whatley: Is Canadians’ Pride in Universal Health Care Misplaced?
Universal health care made the top of a list of things identified as a very important source of ...
Viewpoints
July 1, 2019
Forced Referral and Freedom of Religion Vs Freedom of Conscience
A recent court decision in Ontario missed the mark when it ignored the impact forced referral has on ...
Viewpoints
May 27, 2019
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