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Jan 13, 2025 | 
healthydebate.ca | Maddi Dellplain |Alykhan Abdulla
Ontario’s health-care system is crumbling. For more than 70 years, Canadians have lauded the Canada Health Act (CHA) as a beacon of universal care, yet it’s woefully outdated in the face of modern challenges. Chronic diseases are surging, hospitals are buckling under demand, and rural areas are often left without adequate access to care. Meanwhile, politicians patch the bleeding wounds with temporary Band-Aid fixes, prioritizing electoral wins over systemic reform.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
ottawacitizen.com | Alykhan Abdulla
It’s no secret that the health-care system can be frustrating, for patients and providers alike. • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentAs I walk around downtown Ottawa and see the intolerance of drivers toward pedestrians, or the well-to-do ignoring those who ask for help, I wonder why ignorance, selfishness and entitlement are so rampant in many aspects of our lives today.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
thesudburystar.com | Alykhan Abdulla
We must foster trust with our Indigenous patients: listening to their stories, understanding their fears, and working to make our health-care spaces safe and welcoming. The Canadian Medical Association will apologize to Indigenous people for systemic racism in health care this week, says Dr. Alykhan Abdulla, shown here. Photo by Staff /POSTMEDIAArticle contentI am an Indo-Pak Muslim family doctor in south Ottawa.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
ottawacitizen.com | Alykhan Abdulla
We must foster trust with our Indigenous patients: listening to their stories, understanding their fears, and working to make our health-care spaces safe and welcoming. • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentI am an Indo-Pak Muslim family doctor in south Ottawa. I have a few Indigenous people in my family medicine practice and have interacted with many in my 32 years as a family doctor.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
healthydebate.ca | Maddi Dellplain |Alykhan Abdulla
Since 2018, Ontario has been governed by an administration that pursues a “populist” agenda, focusing on privatization, deregulation and profit-driven models. Unfortunately, these policies have led to a marked departure from public health priorities, raising significant concerns among citizens and experts alike. The government’s actions have had detrimental effects on health care and public safety.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thesudburystar.com | Alykhan Abdulla
Demand better from those who make policies. Every Ontarian needs a family doctor. Long wait times, ER overloads, people without primary care — the province's health system needs help. Photo by Dan Janisse /PostmediaArticle contentThis coming weekend, the representatives for Ontario’s 43,000 doctors will meet in Toronto, looking for optimism about a health-care system that is in crisis.
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May 29, 2024 | 
ottawacitizen.com | Alykhan Abdulla
Advertisement 1Demand better from those who make policies. Every Ontarian needs a family doctor. • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentThis coming weekend, the representatives for Ontario’s 43,000 doctors will meet in Toronto, looking for optimism about a health-care system that is in crisis. These few hundred intrepid physicians are working hard to explain the true magnitude of the health-care crisis to the Ontario government.
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May 1, 2024 | 
thesudburystar.com | Alykhan Abdulla
We are the healthcare system, all of us, together. We can make it better once we convince politicians and policy-makers to step out of the way. May 1 is National Doctors' Day in Canada Photo by Sasaton Krungsee /Getty Images/iStockphotoArticle contentMay 1 is National Doctors’ Day, an opportunity to celebrate and recognize the ongoing commitment that physicians make to patients, families and communities. Advertisement 2This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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May 1, 2024 | 
ottawacitizen.com | Alykhan Abdulla
Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1We are the healthcare system, all of us, together. We can make it better once we convince politicians and policy-makers to step out of the way. • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Article contentMay 1 is National Doctors’ Day, an opportunity to celebrate and recognize the ongoing commitment that physicians make to patients, families and communities.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
healthydebate.ca | Maddi Dellplain |Alykhan Abdulla
May 1 marks National Doctors’ Day, intended to appreciate physicians’ ongoing commitment to patients, families and communities. This day allows us to see how socialized medicine in Canada has evolved and how we must all fight for quality health care in a skeptical world. It also pays tribute to Emily Stowe, Canada’s first female physician. For me, though, Doctors’ Day is about my patients and how we wrangle with their complicated health issues in an underfunded system.
