Fourth COVID wave was preventable

"Approximately 60-70 per cent of the conditions we treat in medicine are preventable." I read this statistic years ago when first starting practice and thought it couldn’t possibly be true. After 15 years, I am convinced that it is certainly true. In Alberta, where 40 per cent of the entire provincial budget is spent on health care, we spend an enormous amount of money treating diseases resulting from poor dietary choices, smoking, drunk driving, failure to wear seatbelts and helmets et ce