Major vaccine news came out this week, as well as Olympic scandal and further debate of the use of private facilities to help handle Canada's surgery backlog.
Doctors share moments, big and small, when things could have gone wrong but went right. Dr. Hector Baillie discusses the joy of finally treating an ailment that plagued a patient their whole life.
The trucker convoy and resulting movement restrictions in downtown Ottawa created headaches for pharmacists across the city, with staff having trouble getting to work and difficulties delivering key medications to patients.
BA.2 was detected in Canada as early as December, according to Health Canada data, but a report last week from the B.C. COVID-19 modelling group suggests the newer Omicron strain could be spreading faster in parts of the country than the current dominant version, BA.1.
The sector has seen thousands of deaths since the pandemic began and the arrival of the highly contagious Omicron variant late last year raised fears of further devastation.
The device that controlled the drainage was made of magnet and the patient had an MRI post-surgery. Had Dr. Khalil Khalaf checked–as his patient had asked repeatedly–he would have seen the device was set for maximum flow.
