Their made-in-Ottawa solution has become known as Champlain BASE (Building Access to Specialists through eConsultation), known as eConsult. It offers doctors and nurse practitioners the online version of grabbing a quick chat about a perplexing case with a knowledgeable colleague ...
At a lecture I attended recently, an official of the Ottawa Hospital pointed out that the cost to the health system of caring for a so-called street person is in the order of $125,000 a year, with many street people also being drug addicts. The use and sharing of dirty needles cause ...