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The following paragraph contains examples of faulty usage in the
following areas: italics/underlining, capitalization, abbreviation,
numbers, and hyphens. Please identify each error in usage; there are
20 in total.
The health crisis in Canada is not limited to any 1
province . Whether the news is about striking nurses in Nova Scotia
or in British Columbia, we are made aware of the super charged
atmosphere surrounding the delivery of health services to Canadians.
In “Defining a healthy
Future: reconfiguring
Our Health System,”
a book published last year, Paul Osmond argues that we cannot succeed
unless we de institutionalize
the way we provide health care. He believes that the medical bureaucracy
is an impediment, not a necessity. With twenty-five %
of our population now past the age of 55
, we have less time to solve our problems, since the typical canadian
receives 90 percent
of his or her medical care in the last five percent of his or her
life. Osmond insists that “Health
bureaucrats narrowly believe the only remedy is to increase funding
to the institutions and personnel directly delivering health care.”
Osmond would prefer that we think smaller, not in terms of hospitals
but in neighbourhood clinics; not in terms of more doctors and nurses,
but in terms of more para professionals
. The Globe and Mail
, in a recent editorial, argued that preventive health care needs
to replace reactive health care. The New Democratic Party and the
fraser institute
surprisingly agree this is the preferred route. Dr.
Rupinder Singh, Ph.D.
leads the way in insisting that alternative medicines and treatment
be part of this new approach. Perhaps an oz.
of prevention is indeed worth a lb.
of cure. The self appointed
experts on health issues need to consider the wisdom of this argument
and stop uncritically accepting the only solution is more $
.
