Editor-in-Chief.
Healthc Policy. 2022 Aug;18(1):6-16. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2022.26910.
Recently, we have all seen myriad articles in the national newspapers announcing that provinces' healthcare systems are imploding, with authors describing systems in states of "crisis" (Laverly 2022), "visibly coming apart" (Tumilty 2022), "broken" (Urback 2022) and "a travesty" (Picard 2022). Without minimizing the hardships or frustrations that some patients and their families have been experiencing at the hands of provincial health systems, are the harsh descriptors apt or fair?
最近，我们在全国性报纸上看到了无数篇文章，称各省的医疗保健系统正在崩溃，作者将这些系统描述为处于“危机”（Laverly 2022）、“明显崩溃”（Tumilty 2022）、“破裂”（Urback 2022）和“闹剧”（Picard 2022）的状态。虽然我们不能轻视一些患者及其家属在省级医疗保健系统中所经历的困难或挫折，但使用如此严厉的描述词是否恰当或公平？
