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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Sep 16, 20244 min read
An innovative, made-in-Manitoba health-care model - cares for patients with chronic diseases
As a doctor, I have focused on Canada’s broken health-care system. But I decided to challenge myself to write a health-care good news...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Sep 12, 20243 min read
Shared Health responsible for sorry state of PET scans, Dr. Sandor Demeter
Published as a Think Tank contribution in the Winnipeg Free Press July 17, 2024 Medical isotopes produced by cyclotrons are injected...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Sep 12, 20244 min read
PET: A Game Changer - Dr. Sandor Demeter
Published in Canadian Health Care Technology 29(4) May 2024 Although the nuclear medicine technology known as positron emission...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Mar 7, 20243 min read
A prescription you can’t fill at a pharmacy
Published in WFP Think Tank March 6, 2024 S. Demeter, M. Routledge Manitoba is part of an international movement that’s writing...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Oct 31, 20231 min read
A long, difficult walk for care
The distance between Winnipeg’s former Health Sciences Centre (HSC) cardiology clinic and the lab that does heart tracings, or ECGs, is a...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Oct 31, 20231 min read
Clerkship changes bad for health system
Senior medical students at the University of Manitoba are no longer going to experience real-world public health training during their...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Oct 8, 20234 min read
Love conquers all!
“Your dog was shot in the head” is all I can remember hearing when our local vet went over Buddy’s CT scan report. Let’s start at the...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Aug 30, 20231 min read
Shared Health (Manitoba) unable to handle even the small things
“If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.” ― William H. McRaven, retired United States Navy...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Aug 10, 20231 min read
Lung-cancer screening – first, do no harm!
New publication in Healthy Debate! click on hyper-link below Lung-cancer screening – primum non nocere (first, do no harm)!
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Jul 21, 20231 min read
Busting Canadian Health Care Myths
Latest Think Tank article in the Winnipeg Free Press - click link below Myths in Canadian health care
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Jul 5, 20231 min read
Manitoba Health needs to catch up to the 21st century
Here is the link to my Winnipeg Free PRess op ed lamenting the fact that Manitobans, unlike some other provinces, do not have online...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Jul 5, 20233 min read
Claim Your Health: Your Guide to Effective Self-Advocacy in Healthcare
Photo source PEXELS Guest article by: Justin Bennett justin@healthyfit.info On the surface Justin’s article includes issues, such as...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
May 20, 20231 min read
Needle in haystack search for radioactive source- Australia
Image source The recent massive search in Western Australia for a highly radioactive ceramic disc that had fallen off a truck drew...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
May 20, 20231 min read
$3 million paperweight - unused medical equipment sits like a rock.
Mundrabilla Meteorite - 1966 Nullabor Plain Western Australia in Adelaide (photo - Sandor Demeter) No excuse can justify why a badly...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Apr 23, 20231 min read
‘It can be a relentless drum beat’: Why the stress on medical imagers should be better understood
Source: Adelaide: ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Sick people get imaged for a reason, and doctors who look at them have to relay so much...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Apr 23, 20231 min read
Your teeth can reveal how much radiation you’ve been exposed to
In 2021, and for the first time in Canadian history, researchers used EPR to measure lifelong radiation exposure in residents living...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Apr 13, 20233 min read
Getting read for baby - what to pack in your hospital bag for the big day
by Josh Moore of https://diaperdads.org/ Image source Pexels - Rene Asmussen - Free stock photo Preparing for your bundle of joy to...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Mar 15, 20231 min read
Sorry Marry Poppins - "Just a spoon full of sugar" - is no longer in vogue!
New Article In Healthy Debate - click on hot link below Newfoundland and Labrador first province to impose a sugar tax to combat obesity...
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Let’s stop the bickering: Canadians are weary of finger-pointing amid the health-care crisis
New publication in Healthy Debate.
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Dr. Sandor Demeter
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Indigenous-led solutions counter a diabetes epidemic
New publication on Healthy Debate Photo reproduced with permission. Source
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