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Articles by Gord Winkel
Albertans' casual attitude towards risk taking a grim toll
On the average commute home from work, it’s easy to observe people regularly carry out any number of “at-risk” behaviors on the roads: not following traffic signals, texting while driving, or driving at excessive speeds. When it comes to driving, it seems Canadians have a very high risk tolerance. This is certainly understandable in a province like Alberta, that was built on taking a measure of risk (the “pioneering” and “get it done” behaviors we admire in successful people and companies).
Safe surgery checklists: the Canadian experience
Each year there are patients who wake up from surgery to find an operation has been done on the wrong part of their body. These wrong-site surgeries are an example of “never events” – incidents that simply should not happen if all safety measures are taken. Nevertheless, these events take place each year in countries with the highest standards of care, from the United States to England, and Canada is no exception.
Can sports psychology help surgeons score better outcomes?
Stepping up to the free throw line, Toronto Raptors basketball players may find Dana Sinclair’s advice on their minds: to control their self-talk and lower tension. “The pressure shifts – the skills don’t,” says the sports psychologist, who has worked with the team, along with others, from the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Canadian Olympic team. “Under pressure, people tend to get tense, and then their thinking shifts to distraction, negative thinking, fear of failure,” she says.
The surprising science behind evidence-based hospital design
Date: July 24, 2014 Author: Vanessa Milne, Sachin Pendharkar & Gord Winkel Rahel Yetbarek sits with her feet up, looking out onto the city and the large swath of treed land that surrounds the freeway below her. The nurse is taking in the view over her lunch break, from the 10th floor rooftop garden at Bridgepoint, a Toronto hospital. Nearby, a few patients do the same. The drone of the highway in the background doesn’t detract from the peacefulness she gets from coming up here.
Should the public know how much doctors are paid?
The United States began releasing the Medicare payments it made to individual doctors on April 9, a move that sparked sensational headlines and debates about privacy. The data offer insights into the $77 billion paid by Medicare’s fee-for-service program to more than 880,000 health care professionals in 2012. Should Canadian provinces follow the U.S.’s lead and publicly release information on how much every doctor receives from the government?
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