Ep. 560: Brian’s Fight for Canadian Healthcare
Guest: Dr. Brian Day, Cambie Surgery Centre
“Outdated policy decisions, made more than a third of a century ago, helped create our expensive, ineffective and inequitable Medicare scheme,” says Dr. Brian Day. For thirty years, Dr. Day has been challenging Canada’s healthcare system, prodding it to be better and meet the needs of patients.
In 1996, Day took a bold leap – one born out of frustration with the shortcomings of our healthcare system. He opened the Cambie Surgery Centre, a private surgical clinic that has grown to perform up to 5,000 procedures a year. “For that,” says Day, “despite reducing health care costs and waiting lists, we became a target of the Government of British Columbia. The BC Government set out to shut us down.”
The Government’s action resulted in a 13-year legal battle – a battle Dr. Day lost. And a battle he outlines in his new book, “My Fight for Canadian Healthcare” – a journey he says takes the reader “through a failing system that has deviated from its intended purpose, ensnaring patients in long cycles of waiting and suffering.”
We invited Dr. Brian Day to join us for a Conversation That Matters about our healthcare system and where to go from here.
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