I recently interviewed Dr. Anthony Miller, who’s in his second year of his family medicine integrated emergency medicine residency in Cape Breton, N.S.
Large language models and chatbots are widely accessible, and often framed as supportive, empathic or even therapeutic. For most users, these systems are helpful or, at worst, benign.
The death of Prashant Sreekumar made headlines across Canada when the 43-year-old father of three died in the emergency room of Edmonton’s Grey Nuns hospital after waiting for eight hours with chest pains.
Primary care providers are in a unique position to identify hearing issues early and refer patients to hearing healthcare practitioners, ultimately mitigating long-term health risks.