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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: OTTAWA

2007-0111

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1997

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer/interviewer, Bob Carty

Interview with Kathleen Connors, president of the Ottawa-based National Federation of Nurses Unions (NFNU) and a nurse for twenty-five years. Connors discusses the managed care system, that is the provision of home care to patients at a lower cost; the repercussions of cost cutting in the health care system as it relates to home care; home care as a for-profit business; the diminishment of caring and compassion in home care due to cost cutting; Connors’ experience with Patient Focused Care (PFC), a philosophy in which patients and families are the leaders of their care; managed care promoters; the realities of managed care; the Americanization of the Canadian health care system; and the myth of managed care as a better quality system. <26mn>

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Copyright owner: CBC, 1997.

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