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- 9/4/2012
Ontario woman fed up that diabetics can't get Alberta referral
A diabetic woman from Ontario is speaking out about Canada’s provincial patchwork of health services, which prevented her from getting treatment in Alberta until she took matters into her own hands. - 9/4/2012
Study reveals possibility of removing leukemia stem cells
TORONTO | Research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine may provide a new avenue for the treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and a solution to the high rate of disease relapse experienced by patients. - 9/4/2012
Quartet of doctors win seats in Quebec vote
A handful of physicians won seats in the Quebec election Tuesday, which saw Pauline Marois and her Parti Quebecois win a minority government. - 9/4/2012
St. Michael's Hospital chooses Infor software to streamline operations
TORONTO | Academic health sciences centre St. Michael’s Hospital has selected software supplier Infor to help streamline the organization’s financial and operational processes. - 9/3/2012
Ex-Manitoba MD in court for sex assault charge
A former doctor accused of sexually assaulting a teenage patient while doing his residency in a Manitoba hospital three years ago is back in court this week. - 9/3/2012
Why the slipshod approach to paying clinical faculty?
The Medical Post gathered data from across the country and found wide variation in remuneration for community-based preceptors - 9/3/2012
What to do when you are bullied in residency
Many physicians are unaware that certain behaviours constitute harassment or discrimination - 9/3/2012
UK nurses 'having to clean toilets and mop floors'
A survey of 1,000 NHS nurses and health assistants, by Nursing Times, found a third had cleaned toilets or mopped floors in the previous 12 months. - 9/3/2012
The satellite solution: Is distributed medical education solving Canada's rural doctor crisis?
There's no question, getting young professionals to settle in small, out-of-the-way communities can be a challenge, especially when the bright lights of Canada's biggest cities beckon. Enter distributed medical education programs: Find doctors suited to rural life, train them in the community and, the thinking is, they'll stick around. Presented as a vital plank in a multi-faceted plan to ensure more doctors "go rural," more medical schools have opened distributed learning campuses across the country-13 are operating this year-including new campuses from Dalhousie and the University of Toronto. Health officials and educators have trumpeted the plan as the magic bullet solution for the rural doctor shortage. But how effective are these programs at getting doctors into under-serviced areas?