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DESCRIPTION:The MISC Brown Bag series is back! Bring your lunch and join us
  for a relaxed talk given by Professor David Wright on Medicare and Migrat
 ion: The complicated history of foreign-trained doctors and nurses in Cana
 da.\n\nHot drinks and snacks will be served. No registration necessary.\n
 \nAbstract: Journalists and policy experts have recently asserted that Can
 adian Medicare is in an “unprecedented” crisis\, one that can only be reso
 lved by the licensing of thousands of foreign-trained health care practiti
 oners. Indeed\, the Conservative Party of Canada\, which polls suggest is 
 increasingly likely to form the next federal government\, has recently unv
 eiled a “Blue Seal” proposal to fast-track the licensing of foreign-traine
 d doctors and nurses. The goal is to address\, or even to eliminate\, the 
 nearly six million Canadians who report not having a primary care practiti
 oner. Although this initiative has been framed as a necessary measure to a
 lleviate a recent phenomenon\, this talk will argue exactly the opposite: 
 that Medicare in Canada was conceived and sustained over the last 50 years
  by the backfilling of underserviced areas and specialties through the lic
 ensing of foreign-trained (and largely foreign-born) practitioners. This p
 resentation examines the history of Medicare\, demonstrating how the keyst
 one of Canadian welfare state nationalism was built and sustained by healt
 h care practitioners who “came from away”.\n\nDavid Wright is Professor of
  History and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy at McGi
 ll University. A specialist in the social history of modern health and med
 icine\, he has published several books on the history of psychiatry\, chil
 dren’s health and disability\, the development of hospitals\, and\, more r
 ecently\, the history of Canadian Medicare. His most recent book (with Sas
 ha Mullally)\, Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Can
 adian Medicare\, was published by 91������-Queen’s University Press\, in 202
 0.\n
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LOCATION:Arts 160\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue 
 Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:MISC Brown Bag series: Medicare and Migration
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