Beyond diets: One doctor’s fresh take on permanent weight lossDrawing on her own experience with obesity, Dr. Ali Zentner’s new book is a guide for patients to a healthier lifestyle and a lesson in compassion for fellow physicians Slowdown in the ORDoctors blame slow turnovers and cancelled surgeries on cleaners and nurses who don’t work quickly enough. What’s really going on? Suspension, $22k fine for doctor who snooped into patient files A doctor in Edmonton who snooped into patient records on a hospital computer has apologized and paid a $22,233 fine to her provincial college. CLINICAL PEARLS: Don’t stop steroids in kids with asthma Colleges struggle to balance protecting doctors’ rights and informing public Where’s the trade-off between privacy and public interest? Crohn’s a different disease thanks to biologics Anti-TNF agents postpone surgery in B.C. study Doctors reluctant to offer routine HIV testing MDs are ‘one of the biggest obstacles’ to screening Fatty liver a frequent ER finding Condition becoming most common cause of cirrhosis in North America From Romania with love Hepatitis C: Many infections, few diagnoses ‘There’s an awareness problem here,’ says liver specialist N.S. surgeon has 3,500-patient waiting list New hospital holds nurse history Amid the gleaming walls and polished floors of the new hospital, an anachronism rests behind glass in a quiet corner near a bank of elevators. It's the uniform of a Second World War era nurse, Major Goldie Mae McCoy. First Previous 1030 1031 1032 1033 1034 Next Last