Healthcare

Last week, Quebec's government ordered an inquiry into the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from Manawan who recorded workers at the Centre hospitalier de Lanaudière in Joliette mocking her with sexist and racist abuse soon before she died.

Quebec's health ministry recently stated it intends to issue 98 family doctor permits for 2021, comparable to this year.

The goal here is not to admonish Canada’s most revered medical organizations, but rather to illustrate the historic and longstanding dearth of Black representation in Canadian medical leadership. Over the past few years, calls to address barriers to achieving diversity in the Canadian health workforce have been gaining momentum. Diversity exists along a broad spectrum that includes gender, socioeconomic, linguistic, and racial subsets, to mention a few. Acknowledging that there exist many populations that are also underrepresented in the highest echelons of Canadian medical leadership, this article speaks specifically to the paucity of Black Canadians in formal physician leadership roles while proposing four key recommendations for addressing this diversity gap.

The college said information within health banks in clinical fields should not be allowed to be communicated to third parties for research or statistical purposes without the patient's consent.

During SARS, I was frustrated with a patient who didn't tell the truth to the triage nurse at the door and endangered herself, myself and all those in the clinic at that time. I tried to understand her fears and even kept in touch with her for the next few weeks to make sure she got better.

Monte Steeves, owner of a Moncton, N.B., said pharmacists across the country are talking about best practices for everything from testing to vaccines at pharmacies right now, recognizing that different regions have different needs.

Health records from three Ontario hospitals—Women's College, St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton and Mackenzie Health in Richmond Hill—are the first to make this feature available to their patients as of Wednesday Oct. 7. Other health-care institutions across Canada that offer electronic records can sign on as well, according to Apple.