Patient-Centred Care

Healthcare may have come a long way from the patriarchic days of when "doctor knew best," but the loosening of this hierarchy has hardly served patients. How is healthcare delivered in Ontario in 2010? Is it in the interest of the patient, or the doctors and the nurses who treat them? Do hospitals plan their services with the patient in mind, or are hospital interests put first? And when policy-makers and politicians set out to reform healthcare to meet our current and future needs, is the patient taken into account?