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- 1/31/2016
Protest city: Whitby-Oshawa by-election a lightning rod for Ontario doctors' anger vs. Liberals
Survey reveals local doctors are burnt out and reducing services as a result of physician pay cuts - 1/31/2016
Meet a small team of doctors giving Syrian refugees care
Dr. Meb Rashid and his family were winding down from a New Year’s Day spent at their local skating rink when an urgent email snapped him back to business. It was his contact at the immigrant-services organization COSTI, asking whether he could come to a hotel near Toronto’s Pearson International Airport to give medical care to some of the 300 government-sponsored Syrian refugees temporarily housed there. Dr. Rashid, a 50-year-old GP, agreed, contacted two of his colleagues and prepared to get to work. At 10 a.m. the next day, they walked into the hotel. - 1/31/2016
Low back pain more likely in patients with depression
Researchers say treating both conditions simultaneously would lead to better outcomes - 1/28/2016
Groups of travelling doctors to provide physician-assisted dying to remote patients
Also suggests that the law should be extended to mentally competent minors