Media misrepresentations harm the public interest, for example, when they wrongly associate old-fashioned psychiatric institutions with the broader public need for mental health care. Just 3% of the public will ever be associated with mental hospitals, but a full 27% of citizens will need the expert therapy skills of a community based psychologist.

Lives and quality of life depend on the media seeing beyond the angling of the medical lobby, which is not at the forefront of care as so much as perpetuating its problems and an unnecessarily high death rate. It's time for proper reforms based on the actual needs of the population. We need far few psychiatrists and far more psychologists, which by the way already exist, but are wrongly locked out of OHIP.

This is what happens when foolish governments allow the medical lobby to call the tune. Further, 50,000 Canadians die prematurely each year due to a lack of prevention, which naturopaths and psychologist can deliver. Wise up media!