Discussions

Canadians are not averse to genetic testing. By 2018, a survey by Abacus Data showed around 11% of Canadian adults had used direct-to-consumer genetic testing and analysis kits, and 60% were open to ordering a test.

There is a lot of bad info readily available to confuse parents—but it's important to remember that Canadians really do trust their family doctors, giving us an important role to play in closing vaccination gaps.

In this case report from 20 years ago, career palliative care physician Dr. Romayne Gallagher looks back at how much we've learned about helping patients with existential suffering.

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Yet Canada’s healthcare system is crumbling under soaring demand, physician shortages and bureaucratic inertia.

Insisting on primary birth sex identification for trans people does little to improve the health of trans and gender diverse persons; it merely exchanges one theoretical set of adverse health care outcomes for others that are definite and far more impactful.

A patient reported falling in the shower two days previously—sustaining a minor ‘scrape’ on the front of the leg. He had not shown it to anyone, but was concerned that it was becoming more painful.

After my workout, having been lovingly tortured by my trainer, I was in the gift shop trying to buy my husband some fancy socks and my granddaughter a card for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah. Then I heard a call on the overhead speaker ‘Medical Emergency, Cafeteria!’