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David Urbach

@DavidUrbachMD

Head, Department of Surgery, Women's College Hospital. Reimagining surgical care for the future of Canadian hospitals. he/him
Toronto, Ontario Joined July 2017
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David Urbach @DavidUrbachMD
Investor-owned surgical facilities in Alberta are draining staff and resources from hospitals, increasing wait times and throwing public hospital operations into crisis. Is this really what we want in Ontario?
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new… via @edmontonjournal
edmontonjournal.com Painful surgical delays point to tug-of-war between Alberta hospitals and chartered surgical...
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David Urbach @DavidUrbachMD
Turns out Ontario public hospitals are amazingly efficient, and provide outstanding value for money to the public. Why not fund our hospitals to perform additional surgeries like joint replacements, rather than overpay at out of hospital facilities? cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
www.cbc.ca Here's how much Doug Ford's government pays a for-profit clinic to do OHIP-covered surgeries | CBC... Premier Doug Ford’s government gives a for-profit clinic more funding to perform certain OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives Ontario’s public hospitals to perform the same operations, CBC News has...
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