Cultural Competence

FP-patient link should continue in last month of life, researcher says

Doctors share their viewpoints in a photo exhibit at the Canadian Conference on Physician Health

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Chronic disease is long-term and requires care best delivered in the community by a multidisciplinary partnership, rather than a provider-to-provider handoff. Do we need to introduce a parallel private system to cope with this development?

Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay has become the latest—and perhaps most unlikely—defender of medical marijuana.

Canadians live longer than people in the United States. Specifically, women in Canada live an average of 83 years, compared with 80 in the United States; men live more than 78 years on average compared with 75 in the United States. Why is this the case? There are clear links between mortality rates and the way countries invest in healthcare and improving social conditions.

QUEBEC | A short, blood-soaked video by a Quebec actor who lost his mother to C.difficile is raising awareness about the human toll that the bacterium continues to extract in hospitals across la belle province.