Cancers that were once considered incurable now have new treatment options. However, they’re associated with significant accessibility challenges in Canada due to their high cost and complexity.
These physician archetypes can no longer survive. This collective loss of identity deserves our grief—but we need to figure our what a resilient MD actually looks like today.
“While people don’t choose to have diabetes, they should have the right to choose how visible that part of their health is to others,” said one of the winners.
With male sexual medicine patients, there is a huge amount of DIY medicine going on. Self-guided TRT and abuse of all sorts of pharmaceuticals has moved out of the body-building world into the general population.
Community pharmacy is designed to produce accurate dispensers and compliant practitioners. But that isn't what our profession needs right now; it needs creative thinking.