Quebec to unveil health prevention strategy?
Did no one at CTV reread this headline about how Quebec is about to unveil a health prevention strategy?
Update: OK, in French, as reported in La Presse, it’s the Stratégie nationale de prévention en santé which might be better translated as the national strategy for preventive health.
Which I think is smoke and mirrors. Ideally, you’d have an ongoing relationship with a GP, who’d keep tabs on you, make you take the standard blood tests and so forth, and try to keep you from eating and drinking yourself into an early grave. At best, now, most people have a foot in the door of a clinic where their records are kept, but no promise to see the same doctor (or any doctor) on different visits.
I wonder what it’s like for the wealthy who still have that old‑school type of relationship with an MD. Do they do better than the hoi polloi who, if lucky, might see a nurse practitioner once a year?
Blork 09:50 on 2025-08-21 Permalink
They use the same phrase in the article. Probably a bad transliteration, as the article originally appeared in FR (Canadian Press). No doubt they mean a “prevention strategy” in the health sector; as in, a strategy to prevent health problems instead of just treating them after they appear, but FFS work on the name!
MarcG 09:55 on 2025-08-21 Permalink
Funny, I thought Kate was referring to the “unveil” part and Bill 21