Marjo Johne
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 10/6/2022
Oh behave! What bad behaviours do docs exhibit in the workplace?
Medscape's poll found male doctors accounted for close to 80% of bad workplace behaviours witnessed by other doctors. In majority of the instances, the offenders faced no disciplinary action. - 10/3/2022
Top doc, top dollars: 47% raise puts Manitoba's public health chief on top of the pay heap
Dr. Brent Roussin's recent salary bump of almost $203,00—for a total of $634,303 between April 2021 and March 2022—'looks terrible' in light of Manitoba's dismal performance during COVID, said ethicist Arthur Schafer. - 10/3/2022
'Disproportionate, unfair' and speculative: Professions tribunal overturns college ruling
Dr. Diana Craciunescu committed a serious ethical breach when she failed to provide adequate care to an elderly patient with cerebral bleeding, ruled Quebec's Tribunal des professions. But banning her for life from emergency medicine was not the right call. - 10/2/2022
A teen's 30-hour ordeal: A ruptured appendix, two ERs and not a single available ambulance
'Her fever was really high. Her heart rate was over 140. She was in agony,' the girl's mother recounted the nightmare that started in an Edmonton walk-in and took them through the clogged emergency departments of two hospitals. - 10/2/2022
Work on top of work: 1 in 3 doctors have a second job, says surveys
While most of the doctors who do extra work outside their practice said the work was related to their profession, a few do something completely different, like create board games or apps or breed animals. - 9/28/2022
Then and now: How Canada's medical and health sciences schools have advanced Indigenous health
In a number of schools, courses focused on care for patients from Indigenous communities have become a mandatory part of the curriculum. In some cases, the imperative to do this has come directly from students. - 9/28/2022
Small claims court fines doctor for grabbing woman who took another patient's file
Vancouver family physician Dr. Chung Cheung Ko told the B.C. civil resolutions tribunal he never touched Li Zheng, who had grabbed a piece of paper she mistakenly thought contained her father's information. - 9/27/2022
Doctors can use their platform to help nurses too, says Canada's top nurse
Leigh Chapman, who was recently appointed as Canada's chief nursing officer, talked to the Medical Post about her new role and the challenges ahead. - 9/25/2022
Disparaging defence: Doctor suspended for sexual abuse portrayed patient as a promiscuous weed smoker
In what the Ontario college's discipline tribunal called a 'grooming tactic,' Dr. Jamal Aboujamra tried to find out what the patient's mother knew 'to gauge from her reaction whether it was safe' to sexually abuse the patient. - 9/22/2022
Revoked: Doctor rented an apartment for patient he had sexually abused
Former Ontario doctor Dr. Ali Mohammad Abdul-Razak Al-Khafaji is now working in the small Saskatchewan town of Radville, under practice restrictions that call for a female practice monitor during appointments with female patients.
