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What Lies Ahead

My mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s

A Tribunal Born of Fear and Hope

How a Canadian judge forced Slobodan Milosevic to face his accusers

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Charles J. Wright

Charles J. Wright is a healthcare consultant based in Toronto. From 1999 to 2007, he was Scientific Officer of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, after a career in surgery, teaching, research and administration at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia.

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Charles J. Wright

Too Much Health Care

We can’t afford life’s creeping medicalization November 2009
The general health of the population today must be considered one of the greatest marvels of human civilization and ingenuity. Pregnant women no longer have to dread the 10 percent risk of death at childbirth that used to be usual; a newborn in Canada today can expect to live 80 years; death related to childhood infections is now…