Healthcare

Our gift guide for your fellow docs, staff, family and friends
They say it’s the thought that counts, and this year, we desperately need something to take our minds off our collective situation. Whether you’re looking for comfort, a sense of renewal or just a good laugh, we’ve got gift ideas for those you’re keen to remind you care.
It's an EHR, not a phone directory: 3-month suspension and $8K in hearing costs for pharmacist's peek into woman's health file
Soosai Stanislaus said he just wanted to help. But the province's privacy commissioner concluded earlier that he was trying to dissuade the woman from filing an insurance claim after she and Stanislaus got into a car accident.

Beyond Bill C-3: What else is needed to protect doctors against intimidation?

The proposed legislation to criminalize intimidation of healthcare workers and patients must be tied to safety policies and procedures at hospitals and clinics, say experts on the topic.
Ontario med students teaching hairstylists and barbers to find skin cancer

Shave and a haircut and a . . . cancer warning?
QUIZ: Test your knowledge on the evaluation and management of syncope

How much do you know about the assessment and treatment of someone who has fainted?
‘It’s stressful to kill somebody’: the healthcare workers who support assisted dying

Interviews with medical practitioners often indicate an uneasy relationship for many healthcare workers with this practice.
Alberta offers free, same-day Sublocade access as overdoses rise

Alberta has become the first province to publicly fund Sublocade, an injectable opioid treatment, as overdose cases rise.
'I stopped eating': Rise in eating disorders seen among Ontario youth during pandemic

In the last year, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children said it has seen a 35% annual increase in admissions to its eating disorder program, while its inpatient psychiatry and adolescent medicine unit has been consistently at or over capacity.
Vaccine makers racing to update COVID shots, just in case

It's too soon to know how vaccines will hold up against omicron.
UBC study finds pharmacists dispensing the abortion pill to be safe, effective

A large study led by UBC researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that offering mifepristone (aka the abortion pill) without prescribing restrictions is working in Canada.

Our gift guide for your fellow docs, staff, family and friends

It's an EHR, not a phone directory: 3-month suspension and $8K in hearing costs for pharmacist's peek into woman's health file

Beyond Bill C-3: What else is needed to protect doctors against intimidation?

Ontario med students teaching hairstylists and barbers to find skin cancer

QUIZ: Test your knowledge on the evaluation and management of syncope

‘It’s stressful to kill somebody’: the healthcare workers who support assisted dying

Alberta offers free, same-day Sublocade access as overdoses rise

'I stopped eating': Rise in eating disorders seen among Ontario youth during pandemic

Vaccine makers racing to update COVID shots, just in case

UBC study finds pharmacists dispensing the abortion pill to be safe, effective