Montreal family physician Dr. Raymond Brière also refused to provide a referral to a doctor who had experience with gender-affirming procedures, according to the Collège des médecins du Québec.
The idea for a culinary medicine course came to Lauren Wong at the end of her first year in medical school, when she had become more interested in cooking but noted the lack of nutrition training in undergraduate medical education.
Ajit Johal, clinical director of Immunize.io Health Association, talks about his non-profit's efforts to create highly engaging, digestible educational materials for situations where healthcare professionals need to grasp swiftly developing information.
While there is a long history of doctor-poets—one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician—few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine.
Contrary to how a local physician admonished me, adjusting medication dosage is absolutely within my scope of practice. Besides, I answer to the patient (who is at the centre of all I do) and to the College of Pharmacists, not to physicians.
A study of thousands of couples shows that high blood pressure often affects both partners—suggesting maintenance of issues like hypertension should take a family, rather than individual, approach.