Patient advocacy is often framed as patient vs. practitioner. But when the physician or pharmacist steps into the advocacy role, it can often be as simple as making sure your patient is fully equipped with the knowledge they need to manage their condition.
As part of a series of first-person true stories written by physicians, Dr. J. David Spence shares experiences from his early days making rounds in neurology.
Ending up in a very different career than she expected when she first started university, Dr. Amy Gajaria, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Toronto's CAMH, is still putting her narrative skills to use.
The first standardized patients program started at McMaster University in 1971. Today, all Ontario medical schools employ actors as a safe way for students to learn and be tested on clinical skills.
