What is pushing family medicine to economic extinction? A family doctor walks into a bar, and cries, ‘Ouch my head! It’s so dark in here I didn’t see the friggin’ bar overhead!’ On addressing the shortage of family doctors nowA retired FP looks at the disparity between the fees paid to him decades ago and what the inflation-adjusted amounts should be—and what Ontario actually pays now. Insecurity in health We have vaccines and antibiotics, surgeries and nutritional diets, housing and protective institution—we just have to make them work together. Drug news—February A review of new launches, new indications, new dosage forms and Health Canada advisories. Ontario’s healthcare agreement with Ottawa will not fix broken system The federal-provincial agreement represents more central planning designed to fix problems created by central planning. Back to basics on chronic pain: Mechanisms and measurements Is brain imaging technology the way to confirm experience of pain? Torsades de pointes vs. sepsis—can you avoid both? Patient case study: Why did the ER physician want me to call him, urgently, before dispensing this patient’s script for UTI? The challenges facing new family physicians A FP trainees’ plea for change that she sent to local media in Sudbury, Ont. – the place she hoped would have been home. Governments can improve patient, physician health by reducing ‘red tape’ CMA president Dr. Kathleen Ross and Dan Kelly of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business recently made the case for a nationwide effort combating excess paperwork in healthcare. Actually, Ontario does NOT have a shortage of family physicians . . . Dr. Sohail Gandhi argues family doctors should be paid for doing admin work. First Previous 36 37 38 39 40 Next Last