Emergency Medicine

It’s a knee-jerk default discharge phrase. It’s a catchall punt of responsibility and liability. And dear colleagues, we need you to think twice before ever saying it again, says Dr. Adam Stewart.

We all know it's happening—but are family physicians well-versed enough on the issues to help patients with opioid-use disorder?

Physicians will only have to cover their mouths and nose if they are within two metres of a patient and not shielded by a physical barrier, or if there is an active COVID-19 outbreak in the unit.

B.C. set records in March for the most overdose calls in one day, the highest 30-day average of overdose calls and the most consecutive days where paramedics attended 100 or more poisonings.

Dr. William Husel claims malicious prosecution and names Trinity Health Corp. in a complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in Detroit. He is seeking a jury trial and at least $20 million in damages.

It is difficult to know what medical interventions to make for patients in the later stages of life.

Researchers hopeful that results could change resuscitation guidelines.

Junior doctors—those in the first years of their careers—make up almost half of all NHS doctors.