The need of a new paradigm to see health care

 
Nipawin - November 27, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis
   

Dave
Dutchak

At a time when our political and business leaders are portraying themselves as the defenders
of one-tier public health care, we have in Dave Dutchak, a new visionary of health care reform.
Dave Dutchak is the head of the province's largest ambulance service(1) and he has recently
expressed the lightning vision that the future of health care lies in a partnership between
business and government.

 

 

business partnership

The business partnership with SAIC and SAP have not been enough to drain our health
resources in the past(2), and Dave Dutchak is looking into additional future partnerships
between business and government so that we can bring a new vision to health care.

 

 

new
vision

Dave Dutchak says that this new vision for health care should parallel the lightning vision
the synchrotron(3) will bring to Saskatoon when thousands of researchers from all over the
world will come to Saskatoon and be blinded by the synchrotron's beams of light that are
billion times more powerful than x-rays(4). Never mind if our health care is deteriorating
and that our aboriginal young people are dying(5); our health is in our future and well
protected by the vested interests of ever bigger businesses, ever inept and corrupted
governments, and ever biased reductionist evidence based researchers.

 

 

Louise
Simard

New visions and fundamental changes start with the way we think, with the way we are
able to transform ourselves and learn; therefore, Dave Dutchak's new vision for health
care is as good as the 'New Vision for Health' expressed by former minister of health
Louise Simard in 1992, and as good as the 'Caring For Medicare' researched by the
one-man Saskatchewan Commission on Medicare(6), Ken Fyke.

 

 

inside
out

Stephen Covey, a management scientist, explains how fundamental changes are created:
Change - real change - comes from the inside out. It doesn't come from hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior with quick fix personality ethic techniques. It comes from striking at the root - the fabric of our thought, the fundamental, essential paradigm, which give definition to our character and create the lens through which we see the world.
(Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People(7))
   
-----------References/endnotes:
   
  List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign
   

1.

M.D. Ambulance
   

2.
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Premier Romanow: Militarizing Health Care and Killing Rural Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, Mar 19, 2000
   

3.
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Premier Romanow's Shining Light to the World: The Canadian Light Source Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, April 2, 1999
   

4.

Health conference explores new vision for health care, CBC Saskatchewan, Nov 26 2000
   

5.

Innu promised detoxification centreCBC, November 26, 2000
   

6.

The Commission on Medicare, Ken Fyke
   

7.

7 Habits 11 years later, USA WEEKEND, July 9, 2000