Iam Mulgrew: Justice handed ‘a dog’s breakfast’ at medicare trial
Surgery waits. How long is too long? A B.C. Supreme Court trial is supposed to answer that, but expert testimony already shows Justice John Steeves is wading into a quagmire.
Ian Mulgrew: B.C. court restricts doctors’ testimony in Medicare trial
While doctors can testify how a patient’s health deteriorated while waiting for surgery, they can’t blame exacerbated medical conditions on waiting lists.
Ian Mulgrew: 2005 Supreme Court medicare victory a prelude to disillusionment
Demonized as the would-be assassin of Canadian medicare, haunted by a man who died in his waiting room, Dr. Jacques Chaoulli practices anonymously in France.
Ian Mulgrew: Mother’s veil of tears an indictment of health-care wait lists
The constitutional challenge to B.C.’s medicare law has been given a human face — the weeping, sorrow-racked mien of a mother who watched her son become a hunchback and then a paraplegic.