his year’s incoming medicine class at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry is the first to have been selected through the initial phase of changes to the medical school admissions process.
Two doctors were acting within the rules and providing adequate care to an elderly patient when they imposed a "do not resuscitate'' order on the man without notifying him or his substitute decision maker, an Ontario judge ruled recently.
Dr. Sandy Buchman of Toronto is about to become the 147th president of the Canadian Medical Association. He takes over from outgoing president Dr. Gigi Osler officially on Aug. 13 at the conclusion of the CMA's Health Summit during a tumultuous time for the association.
