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- 12/16/2020
Is Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine OK during pregnancy/breastfeeding or if immunocompromised?
NACI issues recommendations for use in special populations and addresses other key issues including vaccine efficacy, co-administration with other vaccines, dosing, post-vaccination counselling. - 12/16/2020
PET THERAPY: your animal antidote to stress
- 12/16/2020
How about a palmy pandemic pivot for Xmas?
The lockdowns and public health directives for Christmas 2020 could be an opportunity and an excuse to do things differently. With all the pivoting over the past months, humans have proven how creative and resourceful they are. Why not pick the favourite pieces of Christmas and fold them into new alternatives? Why not make Christmas 2020 the opportunity of a lifetime to create fresh traditions that could be more fun and possibly permanent? - 12/16/2020
Greed MD: a doctor’s guide to the second deadly sin
Most physicians are altruistic individuals who unfortunately finish medical school in substantial debt. A fixation on the monetary may merely be the culmination of many years of delayed gratification and the newfound ability to generate capital. Newly minted grads need to be money conscious to get out of debt and lay down a solid financial future. - 12/16/2020
Ports of call: celebrating the strange spaces that are call rooms
Dr. Mike Wong has always been fascinated with call rooms, how these strange semi-private yet common spaces are a uniting feature of the medical profession. His interest led him to curate Twitter and Instagram feeds dedicated to documenting call rooms from around the world. His work adds to other stories and mysteries of call rooms across Canada. - 12/15/2020
5 Tips: Risk reduction in peripheral arterial disease
Peripheral artery disease is an under-diagnosed and undertreated diffuse systemic atherosclerotic disease.