Discussions

Dr. Adam Chen has a little chat with the Ghost of New Year Yet to Come and discovers what 2024 has in store.

A patient at Dr. Robert Dickson's clinic says perpetual rash just a matter of course with his job.

Be it as a pacifier in the ER, or as a diagnostician at the airport, dogs can make great 'medical devices.'

Ajit Johal, clinical director of Immunize.io Health Association, talks about his non-profit's efforts to create highly engaging, digestible educational materials for situations where healthcare professionals need to grasp swiftly developing information.

While there is a long history of doctor-poets—one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician—few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine.

For too long, though, one way of keeping fit, aerobic exercise, has been perceived as superior to the other, resistance training, for promoting health when, in fact, they are equally valuable.

Contrary to how a local physician admonished me, adjusting medication dosage is absolutely within my scope of practice. Besides, I answer to the patient (who is at the centre of all I do) and to the College of Pharmacists, not to physicians.