Many years ago, a professor at Dalhousie University told Dr. George Burden, a former writer for this magazine, an apocryphal story about Sir William Osler that had been passed down like an old rumour or a running joke.
A new report finds immigrants, refugees and other newcomers accounted for nearly 44% of Ontario's COVID-19 cases in the first half of the year. That's despite the fact overall testing rates were lower for those groups, and that they comprised just one-quarter of the population.
Closing the gender pay gap in medicine in Canada requires a multipronged approach to overcome systemic bias, including payment and hiring transparency, changes to medical education, better parental leave and more, as outlined in an analysis article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
A human rights adjudicator has ruled that the Manitoba government discriminated against a disabled Indigenous boy by not providing adequate health care. The province has been ordered to pay the boy and his mother $42,500. The case centres on Alfred (Dewey) Pruden, who was 16 years old when his human rights complaint was heard last year.
