Globe and Mail

Time is wasting

By ANNE WORMSBECKER, MD
Monday, Jun 28, 2004

 London, Ont. -- The Lalonde Report is 30 years old (Keep People Healthy In
The First Place -- June 24). If time were all that was needed to engineer
change, the focus of health care in 2004 would be on preventive medicine.

Unfortunately, time, even when combined with a solid dose of talk, does
very little. Case in point: I am 26 years old -- that is, four years
younger than the Lalonde Report -- and have just graduated from medical
school where "sickness care" was emphasized and health promotion given
minimal attention.

Mr. Picard has provided a reminder that we can't wait passively for change.
The time is now for physicians, policy makers and Canadian citizens to act.
We can all contribute to taking the blinders off Canadian health care, and
broaden its currently narrow field of vision to include health promotion
and disease prevention.

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