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Jan 9, 2025 | 
boredpanda.com | Iris Gorfinkel
A G.P. gets the best seat in the house of the world’s greatest stop-action film: It’s called Life. I’ve had the honor of serving as your family doctor for nearly 24 years. It’s been a privilege to see your children grow up and watch them have children of their own. It’s also been heartbreaking to sit in the presence of tremendous suffering – from illness, failed relationships, and deaths – of both people and beloved pets.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Iris Gorfinkel |Joel Lexchin Contributors
While much has been said about the added public costs of universal pharmacare, there’s been far too little emphasis on the other costs continually paid from not having prescription drugs covered. The groundwork for a national pharmacare program is expected in the coming weeks in Bill C-64. It’s six pages are now in its final legislative leg, but its importance to the health of Canadians cannot be understated.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Iris Gorfinkel |Joel Lexchin Contributors
While much has been said about the added public costs of universal pharmacare, there’s been far too little emphasis on the other costs continually paid from not having prescription drugs covered. The groundwork for a national pharmacare program is expected in the coming weeks in Bill C-64. It’s six pages are now in its final legislative leg, but its importance to the health of Canadians cannot be understated.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
wellandtribune.ca | Iris Gorfinkel |Joel Lexchin |Joel Lexchin Contributors
While much has been said about the added public costs of universal pharmacare, there’s been far too little emphasis on the other costs continually paid from not having prescription drugs covered. The groundwork for a national pharmacare program is expected in the coming weeks in Bill C-64. It’s six pages are now in its final legislative leg, but its importance to the health of Canadians cannot be understated.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Iris Gorfinkel |Joel Lexchin |Joel Lexchin Contributors
While much has been said about the added public costs of universal pharmacare, there’s been far too little emphasis on the other costs continually paid from not having prescription drugs covered. The groundwork for a national pharmacare program is expected in the coming weeks in Bill C-64. It’s six pages are now in its final legislative leg, but its importance to the health of Canadians cannot be understated.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
archive.is | Iris Gorfinkel
Imagine you — or a vulnerable loved one — needs urgent medical care. If you’re lucky enough to have a family doctor, you head to their clinic. Like most, yours is housed in a building with low ceilings and little air filtration. You enter the waiting room where several patients sit shoulder-to-shoulder waiting. You have no choice but to sit alongside people sneezing, coughing and blowing their noses. Few if any, patients and health care workers are wearing a mask.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Iris Gorfinkel
Imagine you — or a vulnerable loved one — needs urgent medical care. If you’re lucky enough to have a family doctor, you head to their clinic. Like most, yours is housed in a building with low ceilings and little air filtration. You enter the waiting room where several patients sit shoulder-to-shoulder waiting. You have no choice but to sit alongside people sneezing, coughing and blowing their noses. Few if any, patients and health care workers are wearing a mask.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Iris Gorfinkel
The Government of Canada’s website tracks the number of hospitalizations and deaths from acute COVID-19. What it fails to include are the hospitalizations and deaths that result from COVID’s longer-term health consequences. Even mild cases carry risk, but COVID most frequently wallops people after severe cases, especially when hospitalized.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
boredpanda.com | Diana Lopetaitė |Iris Gorfinkel
I’m a GP in Canada, and I’ve seen the pandemic worsen mental health and fuel drug and alcohol use. This is on top of the “usual” anguish of grief, depression, anxiety, and loneliness. So I wrote this letter to everyone who’s facing these challenges. The holiday lights twinkle, the music plays, the anticipation of holidays, and then… the loneliness. 1 in 4 adults worldwide report feeling fairly or very lonely. It’s worse among those between 15-30 years of age.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
cfp.ca | Iris Gorfinkel |Joel Lexchin
More than half of prescribers in the United States use real-time prescription benefit (RTPB) technology as an add-on to electronic health record (EHR) systems.1 If such technology were adopted in Canada, it eventually may allow clinicians here to access patients’ true drug costs easily at the point of prescribing and thereby reduce cost-related nonadherence.
