A commentary by a retired ­physician who lives in Cordova Bay.

Good news is a rare commodity these days. News broadcasts encompass the upending of global financing, global warming, which is being denied, several wars, a huge federal deficit in Canada, droughts across the prairies, avian flu, widespread drug addiction with consequent mental health issues, a distressing shortage of psychiatric beds for these victims, and I could go on, but I think the reader will get the message.

But I have discovered some good news. This is in the area of healthcare.

Over the past 35 years or so, there have been monumental blunders in the politics and administration of healthcare.

Thirty-five years sounds like a long time, but the errors and misdirections are slow to work out of a broken system.

In 1991, the B.C. ­government ordered a Royal Commission report.

The report was far-reaching and erroneously concluded that there were too many ­doctors who were over-treating patients and undertaking too many investigations.

Their recommendations were to close........

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