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Based on the feedback The Patients’ Association of Canada has received from its’ members, we are starting a peer to peer User Guide. This User Guide will include instructions and tips and also the experiences of people who come into contact with the various parts of the system. We are seeding the User Guide with information found in Navigating Canada’s Health Care by Michael Decter and Francesca Grosso (Copyright © Michael Decter and Associates Inc. and The Grosso Group Inc., 2006. Reprinted by permission of the authors and Penguin Group Canada.) Gradually this user guide will become an open-access collaboration, where everybody will be able to contribute new material and edit existing information. A panel of specialized volunteers will review contributions on an ongoing basis, to monitor accuracy and maintain standards.

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nhsManagers.net
nhsManagers.net brings the latest news, comment and analysis important to NHS Managers. Thousands of NHS managers, all over the UK, receive the mailing up to 3 times a week. nhsManagers only mail a...
nhsManagers.net
The Globe and Mail: Patient Navigator
Get answers to your questions about navigating the Canadian health-care system.
The Globe and Mail: Patient Navigator
Recovery from Mental Illness through Bibliotherapy
Tara's Blog: "After years of moving around running from myself, I have settled in Victoria and decided to heal my inner angst through what I call bibliotherapy. Books are my refuge, my self-...
Recovery from Mental Illness through Bibliotherapy
MUHC The Patients' Committee
What are the users’ committee and the in-patients’ committee? The members of the users’ committee and the in-patients’ committee are the guardians of users rights. These committees must ensure that...
MUHC The Patients' Committee
Helphealthcare
"I believe in universal health care. I just want to make it better. And I think we can do that within existing budgets. It’s worth a try." Great pages like: A failure to communicate Ageism in Health...
Helphealthcare
Vegan Hootenanny
A vegan / wellness / sustainable lifestyle blog with wonderfully healthy recipes.
Vegan Hootenanny
Trisha Torrey: Every Patients' Advocate
"A blog about patient empowerment, advocacy, safety, consumerism and tools to navigate the dysfunction of American health care."  
Trisha Torrey: Every Patients' Advocate
SafeMedicationUse.ca
"Help Prevent Harmful Medication Incidents." This website does not provide medical advice. If you require medical advice, contact your healthcare provider or, if you think you may have a medical...
SafeMedicationUse.ca
e-Patient Dave
An accomplished speaker and writer in his professional life before his illness, today Dave is actively engaged in opening health care information directly to patients on an unprecedented level,...
e-Patient Dave
Ontario Doctors and Patients
Self-titled 'your primary source for primary care', this site offers links to patient stories, a quarterly report, and a variety of downloadable patient forms. You must login to download. "We are...
Ontario Doctors and Patients
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Patient Narratives
The Value of a Patient Advocate In 2006 I helped my Mother through the final stages of her cancer to her death; the weeks we spent in the hospital at the end of her life were degrading and something she didn’t deserve.We were...
My Rise From Near-Self Destruction To be or not, as Shakespeare said, or to live or not to live. That was the question which plagued me. I was now seventy-seven years old. Did I want to live into my very senior years, given that I had...
Tara's Patient-led Bibliotherapy Project I first became a patient when I was a year old. I was diagnosed with severe asthma and I spent a full year in a respiratory unit in Toronto. I even went to school there during the day. It was a...
Doug Gosling's Cancer Story Doug Gosling was diagnosed with prostate cancer at forty-nine. "I came to realize that cancer was really two diseases in one," he says. "A physical disease of the body and also an emotional disease...
A few Short Stories 1. The patient had a head on collision with a tree stump while tobogganing, the impact being great enough to throw her somersault style over the stump. This patient had been a St. John Ambulance...
My Foot Surgery: Nina Krakovna This story is a part of my complaint to the College of Surgeons and Physicians of Ontario (CSPO) I was referred to Dr. West in 2007 by my family physician, Dr. Oleg Livshin, for a bunion operation on...
Michelle's Story I am writing about the experience my sister, Michelle, had while staying on the 17th floor of Princess Margaret hospital from December 4, 2009 until December 22nd, at which point she moved to the...
I thought I Knew a lot about Being a Caregiver I thought I knew a lot about being a caregiver. After all, I had parented three children born within five years, successfully weathering teething, toilet training, schooling, even adolescence, and...
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Patient User Guide

User Guide Overview
The Early Years
The Middle Years
The Later Years
Health Care Sytem: Navigation Issues
Disease-Based Cross Listings