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This May Hurt a Bit - Reinventing Canada's Health Care System - cover

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This May Hurt a Bit - Reinventing Canada's Health Care System

Stephen Skyvington

Publisher: Dundurn

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Summary

Brings a politically savvy, business-friendly approach to thinking through the shortcomings and obstacles of Canada’s health-care system, and their solutions
Tackles the problem using a framework for creative thinking, Simplexity, developed by Dr. Min Basadur of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, the Creative Education Foundation, and the Academy of Management
Author is a political and health-care policy pundit and columnist with deep knowledge of the issues waiting to explode
Author appears on NEWSTALK 1010 every Saturday and publishes columns with Sun Media and Postmedia
Available since: 02/02/2019.

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