Diffusing Difficult Patients

I start each of my visits, after I listen to their reason for coming, with THE QUESTION: “What’s your situation with coronavirus, are you a recovered patient or are you fully immunized?”

For today’s sanity saver, we offer up a short list of things that make medicine feel worthwhile on days when it doesn’t always.

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Medicine needs three things to survive, argues Dr. Shawn Whatley: civility, logic and free speech.

Dr. Jabir Jassam writes about the trials of having a colleague who seems to always give patients everything they ask for.

The proposed legislation to criminalize intimidation of healthcare workers and patients must be tied to safety policies and procedures at hospitals and clinics, say experts on the topic.

Cpl. Jennifer Cooper says about a dozen people voiced their opinions against vaccines at a clinic in Prince George on Monday, and some of them followed families to their vehicles.

Twitter users chimed in with suggestions ranging from where to put the scale to how to angle the exam table (hint: with the patients' private parts facing away from the door).