Patient-First Language

An ophthalmologist pulled out, layer by layer, a 'huge, dark-purple blob of contact lenses' stuck to the eye of a 70-year-old female patient. 'She said she felt much better already,' recalled the doctor.

Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth says she was threatened after appearing on television advocating for people to keep wearing masks.

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Dr. Mary Fernando says medicine and mystery novels have much in common and this pandemic has highlighted one commonality in a very tragic way.

'This is why I always have to wear my white coat because otherwise people don’t think I’m a doctor—even though I run the division,' one doctor wrote after reading the study and accompanying commentary in JAMA.

Sarah-Lynn Dunlop reflects on the importance of title distinctions in the pharmacy.

Dr. Louis Roy floated idea of MAiD becoming available to mature minors and infants who experience intolerable suffering.

Dr. Ed Pineau did what he did knowing a pharmacy had refused to give the drugs to anyone other than the patient named in the prescription, wrote the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Prince Edward Island.

Dr. Gary Kinney ponders the merit in being a shrub amidst the tall trees of the world.

As Dr. Alykhan Abdulla explains, it’s the inherent power to accompany patients on their life’s journey—and reap all the benefits that entails.