ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

• 10/21/2018

  Weird gifts from patients

  To be sure, as the colleges of physicians and surgeons will sternly tell you, doctors are only allowed to accept unsolicited gifts from patients that are ‘modest tokens of appreciation.’
• 10/21/2018

  Help solve another doctor’s problem: ‘How do you best balance teaching responsibilities with office duties?'

• 10/21/2018

  Finding your purpose in retirement

  You’ve got to retire to something, not from something
• 10/21/2018

  OMA council approves 'allocation-then-redistribution' mechanism at relativity meeting

  Council capped the redistribution of overvalued specialist fees at a maximum of 1% per year, only to be used if allocation of pay increases doesn't address relativity
• 10/21/2018

  Dear government: Please do less

• 10/21/2018

  Ontario to keep overdose prevention sites

  ...but their name and focus will change
• 10/21/2018

  Relativity is our inconvenient truth

• 10/20/2018

  ‘I accidentally told my friend about a well-known patient I saw. What should I do?’

• 10/18/2018

  New reporting regs for MAiD requests on Nov. 1 will be an extra burden on providers

  Starting on Nov. 1, physicians must follow new federal regulations to report requests for medical assistance in dying (MAiD). The regulations support a Health Canada monitoring program for how MAiD is working in Canada.
• 10/18/2018

  Ontario PC government proposing more work, less pay for primary care doctors

  Arbitration begins Monday Oct. 22