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.
Ontario's chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams has been under fire recently but the CBC reported that provincial Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott are standing behind him. "I have all the confidence in the world in Dr. Williams and his whole entire team," Ford said recently.