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Stop treating patients like hockey trading cards: Health Coalition

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Stop treating patients like hockey trading cards: Health Coalition

February 15, 2024
By Pauline Worsfold, RN
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The Hill Times published a letter to the editor from Canadian Health Coalition Chair Pauline Worsfold, RN, about our Health and Hope Lobby in its Wednesday, February 14, 2024 edition.

“Patients should never be treated as commodities by corporations and traded like hockey cards,” wrote Worsfold.

Cover photo: Pauline Worsfold, RN, Chair of the Canadian Health Coalition. Photo by John Major.

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