THE BOOK:
Squandering Billions is a brutally frank indictment of health spending.
The book demonstrates that the absolute power of medical doctors, pharmaceutical
companies, health bureaucrats and hospital administrators, enshrines mediocrity at the
expense of patients. Mistakes, inefficiency and malpractice in the Canadian health system
may be causing ten times or more unnecessary deaths a year than the toll from traffic
accidents (3,000) and crime (500). Some acute care hospitals seem to have become disease
factories. Why do health care tragedies not face the scrutiny typically focused upon other
accidental and wrongful death? Canadian Medicare was designed to insure the patient, not
the practitioner. Why, then, are medical doctors and hospitals exempted from competition?
Evidence shows conclusively that expanded use of community health centres, nurse
practitioners, doctors of chiropractic and others can be more effective and less expensive
within their area of expertise. This book goes where official commissions have been afraid
to travel.
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THE AUTHORS:
Dr. Don Nixdorf has been among Canada's most
prominent health professionals for more than a generation, a member of national and
provincial agencies and a participant in many studies and Commissions. The
Executive-Director of the British Columbia Chiropractic Association since 1985, he is also
a veteran of encounters in all forms of media on behalf of his profession,
including his own open-line radio health program. His work on behalf of the profession
keeps him in frequent contact with health ministers, other professionals, media, insurance
companies and community organizations. (www.bcchiro.com)
Gary Bannerman was a veteran journalist,
publisher, public affairs broadcaster and the author of several books. He served on
the board of directors of corporations of various sizes, and as a communications
consultant to CEOs and senior management of many companies. He was published in
countless numbers of magazines and newspapers and, for 16 years, he hosted Western
Canada’s most successful news talk radio show. His work was honoured by numerous
prestigious awards. (www.bannerline.net)
THE ILLUSTRATOR:
Canadian Kerry Waghorn is the most
accomplished caricaturist in the world. His Faces in the News feature is a
31-year journalistic legend. He is represented by Universal Press Syndicate and featured
regularly in scores of North American and international journals. He has been or is
currently published in the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Miami Weekly News, Boston
Globe, Baltimore Sun, Tokyo Japan Times, Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Citizen.
THE PUBLISHER:
Hancock House Publishers, a leading west coast presence for 30 years,
have published more than 500 titles, from best-selling non-fiction and coffee table books,
to basic outdoors guides and prestigious large format presentations containing signed,
limited-edition prints of original art. (www.hancockhouse.com)
BOOK CREDITS:
Squandering Billions: Health Care in Canada
Hancock House Publishers
By: Gary Bannerman and Don Nixdorf, DC
Illustrations: Kerry Waghorn
Cover illustration: Kerry Waghorn
Cover design: Rick Groenheyde
Author photos: Patricia Bannerman
Production: Ingrid Luters
