To the editor:
Please congratulate André Carrel on his piece “Why can’t we produce doctors like Cuba?” in The Terrace Standard on July 23, 2023.
As a family physician with lengthy clinical experience — and some knowledge of Cuban medicine, as well as our own — I heartily agree that the former country has done wonders to create a very effective health care system, imbued with a far stronger sense of altruistic mission than our own in Canada.
His pinpointing the need for policy action, not money-related decisions, is central to Cuba’s success, as well as to Canada’s primary care “crisis,” which is a form of failure.
Dr. Warren Bell,
Salmon Arm, B.C.