People often suffer from a recurrence of their bipolar illness because of non-compliance with the prescribed treatment, but in this case Stan thought that Melanie had been taking it as ordered.
As physicians, we go to work each day with the intent to provide patient care and help others. Frankly, some days are better than others. But we don’t expect to get injured at work and urgently become patient ourselves.
Dr. Ma organized 48 mass vaccination clinics in Kingston during the COVID-19 pandemic and was later ordered by OHIP to repay $600,962 because of alleged billing non-compliance.
Healthcare professionals, police and other front-line workers are aware of the dangers associated with strangulation in the context of intimate partner violence. However, experts are also warning of risks from so-called consensual sexual strangulation.
Existing law permits authorities to treat someone against their will only if their mental state poses a ‘grave and immediate danger’ to themselves or others.
The LGBTQ+ advocates argued that because doctors who didn’t comply with the new rules face fines or imprisonment, it’s a criminal issue and therefore falls to the federal government—not a provincial one—to oversee.
Claire Elyse Brosseau, who has bipolar and post traumatic stress disorders, said she is now also seeking a constitutional exemption that would allow her to receive MAID, which is currently restricted to people who have a serious and incurable medical condition.
May 1 marks National Physicians' Day, coinciding the the birthday of Dr. Emily Stowe—the first female doctor to practice medicine openly in Canada and one of the early founders of the women's suffrage movement.
In a letter dated April 20, Archbishop Frank Leo expressed support for a Conservative private member’s bill that would prevent access to medical assistance in dying from being extended to people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness.
