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Dr. Hector Baillie recounts the long history of the smoker whose vice continues to plague too many of us today.

I recently discovered WORD DOC—essentially a wordle in which the word to be guessed must be somehow medical.

When Canada’s premiers doubled down earlier this year on their demand for a $28 billion unconditional increase in the Canada Health Transfer (CHT), they missed an opportunity to finally achieve the kind of healthcare reform our underperforming system has been told it needs over and over again.

As physicians start travelling again, Dr. Stephen Starr imagines a hotel placard that takes environmentalism to the max.

Streamlining the referral process is one relatively easy step that Dr. Harris says will greatly improve access to mental health services for Ontarians.

Dr. Ghazala Radwi describes the importance of cultivating trauma-informed learning environments in medical education.

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One of the hardest things to learn as a practising physician, says Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, is figuring out the point at which to stop and put on your own oxygen mask before you go on to save the others.

Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes shares why nurses make her life better, even when they don't get along.

Hippocrates supposedly said, “Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be food.” Now, almost 2,400 years later, the “food is medicine framework” promotes the idea that healthcare systems should offer food interventions alongside pharmaceuticals.