Praise for When Politics Comes Before Patients
“In Canada, socialized medicine has been exalted to the status of a sacrament, and to criticize it, either in theory or in practice, is tantamount to heresy. Dr. Whatley dares to do both, and with such clarity of argument and abundance of evidence, that no reasonable or fair-minded person could fail to be convinced. What Dr. Whatley has demonstrated, in this beautifully written and engaging volume, is that socialized medicine fails to meet the most fundamental moral obligation of health care: to place the patient’s interests above all else.”
Dr. Harley Price, University of Toronto
“Whatley… insists that our focus should be on the patients, the people the system is supposed to serve but whose interests are too easily sacrificed in the name of some pretty but ineffectual or even destructive bureaucratic theory. I have been thinking about the health care system for thirty years yet I found Whatley’s book packed with new insights and courageous thinking. A cure for what ails us.”
Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
“When you are getting a diagnosis from your doctor, you want the truth. If you want a truthful diagnosis about our health care system, you must read this book. With precision, wisdom, and verve, Dr. Shawn Whatley has fearlessly dissected the rot that plagues Canadian socialized medicine. Can you handle the truth?”
Bruce Pardy, Professor of Law, Queen’s University
“For someone like me who operates at the other end of the political spectrum, reading Dr. Shawn Whatley’s latest book and its wholesale bludgeoning of the concept of socialized medicine is an uncomfortable experience… You may not agree with his politics, but Dr. Whatley asks uncomfortable questions that deserve serious answers.”
Pat Rich
(Veteran) Medical writer, editor and social media commentator
Former Editor-in-Chief, The Medical Post and Publisher, CMAJ
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