DR. DANIELLE MARTIN, MD, CCFP, FCFP, MPP, is a family physician in Toronto and Vice President of Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women's College Hospital. She teaches family medicine and health care policy at the University of Toronto and is a leader in the debate about the future of health care in Canada. In her first year of practice, she helped launch Canadian Doctors for Medicare to promote a high quality, equitable, and sustainable health system. She was named Canada's 8th most powerful doctor byThe Medical Postin 2015 and is a regular contributor to CBC-TV'sThe National. She writes a monthly column forChatelaine.
A Toronto Star Canadian Non-Fiction Bestseller A Toronto Star Original Non-Fiction Bestseller A Globe and Mail Canadian Non-Fiction Bestseller A Globe and Mail Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestseller Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 It's a prescription to improve health care across Canada --Healthscape Dr. Martin offers a timely and insightful perspective on Canada's commitment to providing health care as a right to all people. The U.S. health care system has a great deal to learn from Canada and from Better Now. --U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Universal healthcare is at the very heart of a caring and equitable Canada. Danielle Martin provides us with a practical, accessible and deeply inspiring roadmap for how we can live up to that sacred promise. --Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything Dr. Danielle Martin has written an outstandingly useful book, for all Canadians, as the nation once again faces the challenges of ensuring effective health care for all. In doing so, Dr. Martin avoids the easy formulae of blanket solutions and properly roots health care's future success in making hard choices on delivery, scope, and structure, based on Canadian values. --Roy Romanow, former Royal Commissioner on the Future of Health Care in Canada and Senior Fellow, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan A clear-eyed, fearless and detailed manifesto, written with empathy and analytical rigor. For doctors, patients and all Canadians, Better Now is an inspiring prescription for the right balance in our shared health care framework. --Hon. Hugh Segal, Master of Massey College, University of Toronto and former director of the Institute for Public Policy