Healthcare

I start each of my visits, after I listen to their reason for coming, with THE QUESTION: “What’s your situation with coronavirus, are you a recovered patient or are you fully immunized?”

Physicians across Canada are managing or planning for staff shortages as the omicron variant forces more to self-isolate.

Christine Elliott said more than 1,200 applicants had expressed interest in the programs that would see the internationally trained professionals deployed where extra help is needed, under the supervision of another regulated health-care provider.

Facilities have had four years to reach accredidation. The process was once the subject of fake letters sent to physicians.

Crown prosecutor Jackie Lane says the doctor sexually assaulted the women during medical exams he did as a gastroenterologist.

Going forward, anyone who looks to subject someone to any form of conversion therapy, "consenting'' or not, will face up to five years in prison.

Looking back on a year in service, data from the National Overdose Response Service, or NORS, shows all 33 potentially life-threatening events were successfully responded to.