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To be sure, as the colleges of physicians and surgeons will sternly tell you, doctors are only allowed to accept unsolicited gifts from patients that are ‘modest tokens of appreciation.’

Every doctor has considered it, but a few have even developed their own rules for determining when it’s time for a patient to go.

In the Birth of the Clinic, published in 1963, Foucault introduced the ‘medical gaze,’ a theory that suggested the way doctors view their patients is, by the very virtue of their work, dehu-manizing.

About one-quarter of Canadian adults have hypertension. Appropriate measurement of blood pressure (BP) is imperative to identify hypertension and monitor the efficacy and safety of antihypertensive therapy.

Knocking down two false assumptions about the best answer to this question—and finding some good answers.

A patient in agony, who only finds relief in hours-long baths, gets an unusual OTC treatment