Ian Mulgrew: Health care, waiting lists a 'whack-a-mole' game

Medical wait lists are manipulated in a complicated system that still runs on fax machines with “whack-a-mole” management, says a surgeon-in-chief for Vancouver’s major health institutions.
At the constitutional challenge of the Medicare Protection Act in B.C. Supreme Court, Dr. Bassam Masri explained that despite tens-of-millions in recently announced funding, surgeons still may need to see fewer patients.
“I just came from a meeting this morning where I was told &hellip