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Dear Melissa, I saw a patient in the ER and called a resident at a tertiary hospital who was breathtakingly rude. What should I do?

For individuals experiencing mental health difficulties, early access to support services and effective intervention can be life-altering. To access these services through the healthcare system, however, most institutions require an official diagnosis.

Notes from a rheumatologist on what family doctors need to know about fibromyalgia and its treatment.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has shaved off his beard and trimmed his hair. Pre-writ electioneering is occurring across the country. But coronaviruses often show seasonality and we may not be as done with the pandemic as we'd like. Now is not the time for an early election call.

Questions about the high rates of cancer—and deaths—among members of Shelburne’s African Nova Scotian community, compared to their white neighbours on the other side of town or even within the South End, have long simmered.

A new technology called knee kinesiography is changing how doctors treat of osteoarthritis of the knee.

In childhood, we are told to walk before we run. I started running at age 36. There was no apparent reason to start running aside from the fact that in the early 80s, it was what people were doing for health and fitness