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Improving Healthcare for All Canadians: Dr. Danielle Martin
SPEAKER: Dr. Danielle Martin, VP, Medical Affairs & Health System Solutions and Family Physician, Women’s College Hospital; Assistant Professor, University of Toronto (Dept. of Family and Community Medicine; Dept. of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; and School of Public Policy and Governance); Author
TOPIC: Better Now: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians (Allen Lane, 2017)
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Better Now: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for all Canadians
by Dr. Danielle Martin
Penguin Canada
January 10, 2017
9780735232594
Longlisted for British Columbia''s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the Canadian health care system, Dr. Martin is on a mission to improve medicare. In Better Now, she shows how bold fixes are both achievable and affordable. Her patients’ stories and her own family’s experiences illustrate the evidence she presents about what works best to improve health care for all.
Better Now outlines “Six Big Ideas” to bolster Canada’s health care system. Each one is centred on a typical Canadian patient, making it clear how close to home these issues strike.
· Ensure every Canadian has regular access to a family doctor or other primary care provider
· Bring prescription drugs under medicare
· Reduce unnecessary tests and interventions
· Reorganize health care delivery to reduce wait times and improve quality
· Implement a basic income guarantee to alleviate poverty, which is a major threat to health
· Scale up successful local innovations to a national level
Passionate, accessible, and authoritative, Dr. Martin is a fervent supporter of the best of medicare and a persuasive critic of what needs fixing.
Biography
Dr. Danielle Martin is Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM), University of Toronto. Martin is grounded in her clinical primary care expertise. She is an active family physician whose clinical work has ranged from comprehensive family medicine in rural and remote communities to maternity care. She is a dedicated educator, mentor and role model to learners aspiring to enter medicine and health care leadership.
Martin is a respected leader in Canadian medicine and well-recognized media spokesperson, regularly named on lists such as Medical Post’s Power List. Her 2014 presentation to a United States Senate Subcommittee about the Canadian health care system has been viewed by over 30 million people across the globe.
Martin spent eight years as a senior hospital executive, most recently as Executive Vice President and Lead Medical Executive at Women’s College Hospital (WCH), where she was also medical lead of the hospital’s COVID-19 pandemic response. At WCH, she led the establishment of Women’s Virtual, Canada’s first virtual hospital.
The recipient of many awards and accolades, in 2019 Martin became the youngest physician ever to receive the F.N.G. Starr Award, the highest honour available to Canadian Medical Association members.