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    Like Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system, the UK’s National Health Service is in crisis. Overcrowded ERs are groaning with patients, there aren’t enough hospital beds and people are paying for some elective surgeries at private facilities. Nurses, ambulance workers and junior doctors are striking. Dr. Brian Goldman takes a guided tour of a hospital in Reading, England to hear their lessons…

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    • This season on @cbcwhitecoat I went to the UK to examine the troubles at the #NHS. You can listen at https://t.co/64oUWKu3Gw. Sir Tony Blair thinks people should be allowed to pay for faster service. That calamity could happen in Canada. https://t.co/6N4i2qiq4Q

  • Mashup Score: 7

    Like Canada’s publicly funded healthcare system, the UK’s National Health Service is in crisis. Overcrowded ERs are groaning with patients, there aren’t enough hospital beds and people are paying for some elective surgeries at private facilities. Nurses, ambulance workers and junior doctors are striking. Dr. Brian Goldman takes a guided tour of a hospital in Reading, England to hear their lessons…

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    • White Coat Black Art with Dr. Brian Goldman - March 10, 2023: UK healthcare crisis lessons for Canada https://t.co/GODhlO4eIH The UK and Canada seem headed down a very similar and treacherous path to privatization.