Dr. Cristian Lucian Budeci should have rushed his 14-year-patient to a urologist, ruled the Collège des médecins du Québec. Instead he prescribed antibiotics and over-the-counter painkillers.
Madeline has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS, for more than 30 years after contracting mononucleosis twice in her younger years.
Many doctors don't know how to react or cope when a patient's pregnancy ends in a miscarriage or stillbirth. At the 2022 Family Medicine Forum, Dr. Sarah Gower offered some advice.
Dr. Bonnie Henry said while influenza cases are up, 90% of people in the province have some immunity to the COVID-19 virus through vaccination, infection or both.
The agency's FluWatch report says Canada has now entered a flu epidemic, which is declared most years after the threshold of a 5% positivity rate is surpassed.
