Patient-First Language

TORONTO | The infectious disease doctor who guided Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis made an appeal prior to his death for Canada to change the law and legalize assisted suicide. Dr. Donald Low made his plea in an emotional video shot eight days before his death last week from a brain tumour.

Critics are slamming the Vancouver Island Health Authority’s new model for care delivery, saying it is really a way to replace registered nurses with less- qualified care aides.

Surgeons differ over reasons for increased uptake

After a long career in ophthalmology, a parade of memories reminds me of the impact I’ve had on patients’ lives, and their impact on mine

Study reveals the importance of advance care planning

‘Somalia was last country with smallpox—I didn’t want it to be last place with polio’: Ali Maow Maalin

U.K. report stresses need for cross-boundary inter-professional training