Just
days after the province came out with their healthcare blueprint, the
province's doctors releasing a companion piece called Care First.
The
New Brunswick Medical Society says their document is built around the
four pillars of primary care renewal, wait time reduction, healthy
living and front line work input.
Medical Society President Dr.
Robert Desjardins tells Tide News they advocate a new program called
'Choose Wisely' which aims to improve decision-making by medical
profession in areas like testing.
He says the program will
support a certain kind of standardization in testing but it only works
with education and in co-operation with the government.
Desjardins says in the US, the standardization of testing has saved over 25 per cent in hospital laboratory costs.
The
Medical Society is also calling on New Brunswickers to be more
responsible for their own health adding just talking about it is not
enough. He says their must be some legislation by the government to
force hospitals and schools to serve better food in their own
cafeterias.