ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 7/11/2021
Feds setting up guidelines to include national security considerations into university research funding criteria
Security questions around scientific research have drawn renewed attention after two scientists were escorted from the high-security National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg in July 2019 and then fired in January this year. - 7/9/2021
Do pharmacists have a problem talking about the opioid crisis?
Patients want to have these conversations with us, maybe it’s time that we overcome our own barriers to talking about difficult topics and treat them like the matter-of-fact issues that they are. - 7/8/2021
Case report: A painful knee
A nine-year-old boy had not reported knee pain until his parents were critical of the fact that he was lagging behind during walks—and noticed that perhaps he was turning his left foot outwards at times. Another case Dr. Robert Dickson has just seen in his clinic. - 7/8/2021
Who gets to define professionalism?
What happens when our imperative to speak out runs up against barriers? When we encounter hostile interlocutors, when we are responded to disrespectfully by anonymous citizens or by colleagues? - 7/8/2021
The walls of Ontario's COVID-19 field hospitals are starting to come down
One such tent hospital never actually saw any patients. - 7/8/2021
SHA research project looks to find supports for trans patients navigating the healthcare system
After just a few months, the pilot project has seen some success. - 7/8/2021
Should we fire anti-vaxxer patients?
Dr. Jabir Jassam thinks about how much we have all done to get here in the pandemic and he laments the risk that those who refuse to be vaccinated pose.