Big brains Fyke and Rourke have spoken

Big Brains Fyke and Rourke Have Spoken

Nipawin - December 31, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis

last six
months
of their
lives
Today we have the one-man commissioner of medicare, Ken Fyke, who after spending more

and more and more money for further researches in health care, has come up with one root

problem of our health care system. He says, forty percent or more of the costs of the health

system is spent in treating patients in the last six months of their lives and that is a

tremendously complex issue. Fyke doesn't have an answer for this tremendous problem but

he has the big question "How does society decide?" We want to help Mr. Fyke and we have

the suggestion that he finds the answer by mailing another 400,000 questionnaires to

Saskatchewan families⁽¹⁾.

more
money
Mr. Fyke has a long history of expertise in health care, and I believe he had some role along

with the other expert Brian Rourke, fixed chair of the Saskatchewan Association of Health

Organizations (SAHO), in the digging of the hole in the ground for the closure of the Plains

Health Centre in Regina⁽²⁾. Rourke and Fyke have a superior expertise in health care, however

while Rourke has stated that "there's a need for more money in the system," Fyke disagrees

and says that more money is not the answer.

fairness
Hypocritical Rourke and Fyke, along with any level of governments, have both supported the

blowing out of acute health care beds in order to downsize the medical and nursing expenses⁽³⁾.

And today, Rourke says:

"the total per-capita spending on acute-care services is lower in Saskatchewan

than any other province." And Fyke says "A decade ago patients may have

spent a couple of weeks in hospital after surgery and received their prescribed

drugs at no charge. Now they are often discharged after twnty-four hours and

are required to pay for their own drugs... In the interest of fairness and equity

that can't continue."

teamwork
model
Doctors have been downsized and excluded from participating in health reform and Fyke may

have another surprise for doctors. He says

"physicians have worked as private practitioners, and been solely responsible

for their decisions. In a new teamwork model, some may find it difficult to

change and share the responsibility with nurses and other professionals."

Roy
Romanow
Fyke has also stated that there is a need for a national inquiry, and he would be delighted if

another commission follows in his wake. There is the fervent speculation that Roy Romanow

may head this commission. So after the Saskatchewan Way, Mr. Romanow could be building

another vision, the Canadian Way, and follows Mr. Fyke's approach to mail out questionnaires,

this time not 400,000 but millions of questionnaires.

fundamental shift
I agree with Mr. Fyke's assessment that the health care system needs fundamental shift

in thinking, and I suggest that this fundamental shift of thinking would begin with his

own big brain.

------------References/endnotes:

Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf The Global Citizen, http://www.tidepool.org/gc/

List of relevant social articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

Lack of vision, unstable funds hurting health care: SAHO, by Barb Pacholik, December 5, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

More money not answer: Fyke. Says health-care system needs fundamental shift in thinking, by Mark Kennedy, December 28, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

1.
-
Fyke's Medicare Survey and the Psychology of Influencing People, by Mario deSantis, October 27, 2000

2.
-
The closure of the Plains Health Centre: The $50 million overrun and the gimmick of saving money in health care, by Mario deSantis, December 19, 1999

3.
-
Minister of Health Pat Atkinson:"Wellness Model" is outside the Canada Health Act, by Mario deSantis, March 7, 2000

biography of Ken Fyke

Big Brains Fyke and Rourke Have Spoken

Nipawin - December 31, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis

last six months of their lives	Today we have the one-man commissioner of medicare, Ken Fyke, who after spending more
	and more and more money for further researches in health care, has come up with one root
	problem of our health care system. He says, forty percent or more of the costs of the health
	system is spent in treating patients in the last six months of their lives and that is a
	tremendously complex issue. Fyke doesn't have an answer for this tremendous problem but
	he has the big question "How does society decide?" We want to help Mr. Fyke and we have
	the suggestion that he finds the answer by mailing another 400,000 questionnaires to
	Saskatchewan families⁽¹⁾.

more money	Mr. Fyke has a long history of expertise in health care, and I believe he had some role along
	with the other expert Brian Rourke, fixed chair of the Saskatchewan Association of Health
	Organizations (SAHO), in the digging of the hole in the ground for the closure of the Plains
	Health Centre in Regina⁽²⁾. Rourke and Fyke have a superior expertise in health care, however
	while Rourke has stated that "there's a need for more money in the system," Fyke disagrees
	and says that more money is not the answer.

*fairness*	Hypocritical Rourke and Fyke, along with any level of governments, have both supported the
	blowing out of acute health care beds in order to downsize the medical and nursing expenses⁽³⁾.
	And today, Rourke says:
	"the total per-capita spending on acute-care services is lower in Saskatchewan
	than any other province." And Fyke says "A decade ago patients may have
	spent a couple of weeks in hospital after surgery and received their prescribed
	drugs at no charge. Now they are often discharged after twnty-four hours and
	are required to pay for their own drugs... In the interest of fairness and equity
	that can't continue."

teamwork model	Doctors have been downsized and excluded from participating in health reform and Fyke may
	have another surprise for doctors. He says
	"physicians have worked as private practitioners, and been solely responsible
	for their decisions. In a new teamwork model, some may find it difficult to
	change and share the responsibility with nurses and other professionals."

Roy Romanow	Fyke has also stated that there is a need for a national inquiry, and he would be delighted if
	another commission follows in his wake. There is the fervent speculation that Roy Romanow
	may head this commission. So after the *Saskatchewan Way*, Mr. Romanow could be building
	another vision, the *Canadian Way*, and follows Mr. Fyke's approach to mail out questionnaires,
	this time not 400,000 but millions of questionnaires.

fundamental shift	I agree with Mr. Fyke's assessment that the health care system needs fundamental shift
	in thinking, and I suggest that this fundamental shift of thinking would begin with his
	own big brain.

------------References/endnotes:

	Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf The Global Citizen, http://www.tidepool.org/gc/

	List of relevant social articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

	Lack of vision, unstable funds hurting health care: SAHO, by Barb Pacholik, December 5, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

	More money not answer: Fyke. Says health-care system needs fundamental shift in thinking, by Mark Kennedy, December 28, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

1. -	Fyke's Medicare Survey and the Psychology of Influencing People, by Mario deSantis, October 27, 2000

2. -	The closure of the Plains Health Centre: The $50 million overrun and the gimmick of saving money in health care, by Mario deSantis, December 19, 1999

3. -	Minister of Health Pat Atkinson:"Wellness Model" is outside the Canada Health Act, by Mario deSantis, March 7, 2000

	biography of Ken Fyke