ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 11/8/2020
Mask laws: Necessary or nonsense?
- 11/8/2020
Manitoba teaming up with doctors to enhance virtual care
New options will allow specialists and family physicians in the province to offer more comprehensive virtual visits, giving them more time to take a full patient history, review test results with patients and discuss treatment options. - 11/8/2020
Learning medicine between worlds
I think about certain patients, displaced from the certainties of their lives in their home countries. They have, for complicated reasons, chosen to leave the world they grew up in to make a new life in Canada. The dominant culture here is so foreign, so strange to them. Some are ready to embrace it and go forward, and some are stuck and cannot adjust. - 11/5/2020
Pharmacists now part of NL flu vaccine program
Pharmacists in Newfoundland and Labrador have joined family physicians, regional health authorities and other health professionals as part of the government’s universal flu vaccination program. - 11/5/2020
Manitoba to set up three integrated youth services hubs to boost mental health, primary care
The youth hubs will aim to provide a one-stop-shop model for medical help as well as peer support and other social services. - 11/5/2020
OMA says provincial budget an 'important step' in addressing pandemic care backlog
On Thursday, Ontario's government said it's spending $2.5 billion more in the hospital sector this year to help fight the pandemic. - 11/5/2020
Is cannabis substitution an effective tool to curb opioid addiction?
Dr. Samuel Hickcox, the physician lead for addictions medicine at Nova Scotia Health, said there isn't "high-quality scientific evidence" supporting such a substitution program. - 11/5/2020
Healthcare theatre program focuses on virtual care to boost med students' communication skills
The abilities to connect and communicate that such programs are meant to foster are all the more important in the pandemic's context. - 11/5/2020
PHAC updates COVID-19 guidelines to include aerosol transmission
The change came within 24 hours of Canada's Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam updating recommendations to say that masks with three layers—two cloth plus a filter—are ideal over two-layer face coverings.