More doctors won’t save us if we keep creating new patients

A sustainable health-care system must pair workforce reform with prevention, and nowhere is the prevention gap more obvious than with smoking and vaping.
Strong federal action on vaping would signal a serious commitment to a healthier, more sustainable future, write Dawn Bowdish and Jessica Buckley.

Canada’s health-care crisis is usually described in familiar terms: long wait times, overcrowded emergency rooms, and not enough doctors and nurses. Governments respond with equally familiar promises: more hospital beds, more staff, more funding.

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