Healthcare

Even with smaller numbers, hospitals are dealing with staff fatigue and shortages, which have led to cancelled surgeries and bed closures.

Promoting exercise and good nutrition before gastric cancer surgery could be just as important as providing rehabilitation after it.

To those pharmacists who go the extra mile, wait the extra hours, fix patients' watches, bring in fresh produce and eggs for their patients. I love you, but maybe it's time to dial it down a bit?

"It was a breach of process," said Dr. Sheldon Salaba, president of the Ontario Association of Optometrists.

While counselling patients, consider becoming more and more aware of what might be really happening with patients under the surface.

Researchers say physicians from England, France and the United States have reported similar trends.

Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, head of the Local Association of Public Health Agencies, says the group wants the province to bring in a vaccine certificate system, which would limit access to non-essential activities to those who are fully immunized.