Sam Shortt
Director of the Queen’s-based Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Shortt also holds a Ph.D. in history and can speak to the significance of the proposed Pharmacare plan.

He is the author of numerous papers on medicine, history, and health policy as well as the recent monograph, The Doctor Dilemma: Public Policy and the Changing Role of Physicians under Ontario Medicare (1999). His current research interests include access issues and accountability in health care.

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