{"id":236,"date":"2004-08-18T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T06:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=236"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"well_we_were_al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/well_we_were_al\/","title":{"rendered":"well, we were all pre-med when we *started* college&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the Toronto Star, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1092782107837&#038;call_pageid=968867505381&#038;col=969048872038\">an article<\/a> that discusses canada&#8217;s medical status quo&#8211; apparently they don&#8217;t have enough doctors.<\/p>\n\n<p>this made me choke on my chardonnay.  not enough doctors?  there are one billion indians walking the earth!  :p  how is ANYONE lacking doctors?<\/p>\n\n<p>is dr. sunil patel (who is quoted below) the only brown person in canada?  \ud83d\ude09  no, that can&#8217;t be.  CANADA has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000174.html\">TEN brown legislators<\/a>!  so where <em>are<\/em> all the doctors?  and more pressing than that, what on earth do canadian uncles and aunties brag about at parties if their kids aren&#8217;t in med school?  anyone?  buehler??<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Canada needs to invest $1 billion over the next five years to reverse its serious shortage of doctors and ensure there will be enough health-care providers in future to reduce long waiting lists plaguing hospitals, the Canadian Medical Association says.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>The association wants Ottawa to create a national health human resources reinvestment fund, which would plan for future personnel needs and &#8220;help end the health human resources boom-and-bust planning cycle,&#8221; outgoing president Dr. Sunil Patel told a news conference at the annual meeting in Toronto yesterday.<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Toronto Star, an article that discusses canada&#8217;s medical status quo&#8211; apparently they don&#8217;t have enough doctors. this made me choke on my chardonnay. not enough doctors? there are one billion indians walking the earth! :p how is ANYONE &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/well_we_were_al\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}