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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Feb 27, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20207 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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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Dr. Sandor Demeter
May 17, 20201 min read
Right Brain - Left Brain
Follow the link for a thought provoking CBC documentary (The Divided Brain) on left versus right brain thinking and how each side...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
May 9, 20203 min read
Staffing Personal Care Homes - Time for a New Normal
Why do health care workers work at multiple facilities? It may be that workers have to cobble together multiple part time or causal...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter Associate Prof U o M
Mar 29, 20203 min read
Proud To Be Canadian
There have been stark international differences on managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategies range from strict state driven lock downs ...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Sep 29, 20191 min read
A must read
I recently read a book by a Winnipeg Dr. recounting his experiences with working with the homeless at Siloam Mission (Wisdom from the...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Sep 11, 20195 min read
Failed Execution - Update 2 - Good News
There appears to be a plan in place to manage variable wait times for UBT. In the short term blitzes at various hospitals will be done to...
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Art work by S Demeter
Sep 5, 20193 min read
Forced Overtime - Say What?
In an abundance of caution during the election period I am repeating my disclaimer which can be found on the home page: The views and...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Aug 13, 20191 min read
The Interview - Don't Judge by Appearances
I came across this video on LinkedIn and I had to share it!
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Aug 8, 20191 min read
Exciting New Cancer Therapy
The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health Care (CADTH), via the Pan Canadian Oncology Drug Review process, has recently...
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