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Shawn Whatley

Shawn Whatley is a physician, past-president of the Ontario Medical Association, and a Munk Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is the author of the MLI report, The Most Responsible Politician: Who’s the MRP for Health Care in Canada.

Patient hotels: an established transitional solution to overcrowding

  • Ontario has run out of space to care for patients. Even without a novel coronavirus threatening to crush health care, Ontario needs a quick,
Opinion | BY SHAWN WHATLEY | February 3, 2020
With hotels having thousands of empty beds that could be used at a tiny marginal cost compared with building new LTC homes, patient hotels seem an obvious and well-supported solution to our current crisis. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Patient hotels: an established transitional solution to overcrowding

Opinion | BY SHAWN WHATLEY | February 3, 2020
  • Ontario has run out of space to care for patients. Even without a novel coronavirus threatening to crush health care, Ontario needs a quick,

Patient hotels: an established transitional solution to overcrowding

Opinion | BY SHAWN WHATLEY | February 3, 2020
  • Ontario has run out of space to care for patients. Even without a novel coronavirus threatening to crush health care, Ontario needs a quick,
With hotels having thousands of empty beds that could be used at a tiny marginal cost compared with building new LTC homes, patient hotels seem an obvious and well-supported solution to our current crisis. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Canadian health-care system needs a ‘most responsible politician’

  • The concept of the “most responsible physician” (or MRP) is an old one. It helps establish who is ultimately responsible for overseeing the care
Opinion | BY SHAWN WHATLEY | November 6, 2019
Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, pictured in the National Press Theatre in 2018. When it comes to Canadian health-care policy, there is no clear 'most responsible politician.' This guarantees that the health-care boat will spin in circles, with Ottawa setting priorities that are out of line with the actual needs and demands of each province, writes Shawn Whatley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canadian health-care system needs a ‘most responsible politician’

Opinion | BY SHAWN WHATLEY | November 6, 2019
  • The concept of the “most responsible physician” (or MRP) is an old one. It helps establish who is ultimately responsible for overseeing the care

Canadian health-care system needs a ‘most responsible politician’

Opinion | BY SHAWN WHATLEY | November 6, 2019
  • The concept of the “most responsible physician” (or MRP) is an old one. It helps establish who is ultimately responsible for overseeing the care
Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, pictured in the National Press Theatre in 2018. When it comes to Canadian health-care policy, there is no clear 'most responsible politician.' This guarantees that the health-care boat will spin in circles, with Ottawa setting priorities that are out of line with the actual needs and demands of each province, writes Shawn Whatley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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