Emergency Medicine

'You better learn jiu jitsu and hand-to-hand combat if you ever take my opioids away,' Dr. David Bittleman's patient wrote him. 'You better learn how to defend yourself!'

Viruses have seldom been out of the headlines in recent years. Have you been paying attention?

Provide patients with information about ways to reduce the risk of West Nile virus infection.

Lakeridge Health in Durham Region said it's facing a potential shortage of epidural catheters related to supply-chain issues across North America.

The hospital also warned earlier this week that emergency wait times were "much higher than normal'' due to high patient volumes and ongoing staff shortages.

Last year, two people died after an outbreak of legionnaires' disease in an adjacent area.

The labour shortage in Nunavik's health sector is not new—and neither are the requests for government action.

Dr. Robert Dickson sees a young patient with a puzzling "bullseye" lesion.