Health care in the North: imagining a different future

We who are stewards of the health-care system in the North must now more than ever be able to imagine a different future, or the costs of our present arrangements will soon overwhelm us.

WHITEHORSE, YUKON—The stories we tell ourselves have a powerful hold on us. When we think about a forthcoming event or condition, we act upon how we perceive it. David Ingvar, a Swedish neurobiologist called these "memories of the future." He found that brain-damaged people could not concep...

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