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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- May 22, 2021
- 1 min
MB Premier's May 22, 2021 Press Conference
The deflection of accountability continues.
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- May 18, 2021
- 8 min
Transforming Health Care in Manitoba or “The Fine Art of Muddling Through”
The views and opinions expressed in this op ed are my own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of any organization, agency, or...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- May 16, 2021
- 1 min
I Told You So
I thought I would try my hand at editorial cartoons. Apologies to those who are poorly rendered.
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Apr 28, 2021
- 5 min
We need to avoid the name, shame and blame game!
Don Quixote (Picasso 1955) At times politicians and senior public health leaders have been selective in what information is shared with...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Apr 10, 2021
- 3 min
Failed Execution - What part of this is patients first? Part 5
Shared Health has failed to implement a “patients first” approach to testing patients who have chronic stomach aches. People with chronic...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Apr 5, 2021
- 1 min
Death and Taxes
As the idiom goes there are only two things in life that are certain: death and taxes. To this end I highly recommend André Picard's new...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
Public Health Ethics - Balance
My ethics article was picked up by Healthydebate. Check it out at this LINK
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
Reality Check
The daily new COVID counts have dropped and stabilized but have not fallen to “0”. Given that we have been in code red for three and a...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Feb 20, 2021
- 3 min
Charging Manitobans for Routine Medical Tests
It has been over three years since multiple media outlets reported on a private Winnipeg clinic charging Manitobans for essential health...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Transparency - Essential for Buy In
We are in the second, and probably not the last, wave of the COVID roller coaster and the following excuse for not releasing more...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Jan 30, 2021
- 3 min
MB is an outlier!
The following correspondence was sent to the Government of Manitoba (Minister of Health and official health critic), the College of...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Dec 20, 2020
- 1 min
COVID prevention measures expose poor public policy choices
Patrick Mahon: Messengers' Series: Satellite II (2018-19) The following links are to a reputable (Royal Society of Canada) article on...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Nov 16, 2020
- 7 min
The Fine Art of Muddling Through – COVID Pandemic Management in Canada
Wild and Wooly by Mandy Stephen (Edmonton) Remember when Manitoba went 13 days without a COVID case? What happened? It is a given that no...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Nov 10, 2020
- 3 min
Personal Care Homes - Too Little, Too Late!
First of all, my deepest condolences to friends and family who have lost loved ones to COVID. This is especially poignant for those whose...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
Outsource Contact Tracing?????
Source: Adelaide circa 2019 After working as a public health officer for over a decade I can attest to the fact that Public Health has...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Aug 14, 2020
- 1 min
Pandemics are a Bad Time for Health Care Erosion Management
The Progressive Conservatives party has held power in MB since 2016. Ideologically they are about fiscal austerity, reducing the deficit,...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Jul 25, 2020
- 5 min
COVID-19 and Societal Values
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Jul 4, 2020
- 3 min
The Saga Continues
First a recap. People with chronic stomach aches may be suffering from a treatable infection called Helicobacter pylori gastritis which...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
- Jun 9, 2020
- 2 min
Time to Face Up To How We Really Treat Our Seniors
Sculpture by John Hooper - St John NB After I read a recent CBC I-Team story on Personal Care Home (PCH) inspections in Manitoba I felt...
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