Emergency Medicine

Teamwork and the art of avoiding mistakes
In his recently released book The Power of Teamwork, Dr. Brian Goldman, an ER doctor at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, talks about how teamwork can make for happier staff, more efficient operations—and fewer medical errors.
The power of critical thinking
When it comes to diagnostic errors, much emphasis is placed on gaining more knowledge to fix the problem.

High school students across Canada to be trained on how to administer naloxone

The Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation is announcing Tuesday that its new training program will be added to the CPR and automated external defibrillator training it offers for free in high schools across the country.
Stay overnight

Instinct told Dr. Raj Waghmare to ask his recovering patient to stay overnight in the hospital—the next day his admission diagnosis surprised.
Ditching the shame and blame

Hospital critical incident reviews a work in progress.
Editorial: The Mistakes Issue

We’re only human: navigating the errors in our lives.
Whether racism is ‘shocking’ stirs colleges of physicians and surgeons national meeting

FMRAC meeting in Quebec City debates ‘eradicating Indigenous-specific and other forms of racism’
B.C. Greens launch hearings on healthcare 'crisis'

With record numbers of British Columbians without a family doctor, the toxic drug crisis and questions about pandemic and lack of integrated mental health care, the Greens say urgent action is needed.
Calgary mayor wants province to reverse changes to emergency medical dispatch

Both the city and Alberta Health Services ordered reviews Thursday into why it took an ambulance 30 minutes to get to an 86-year-old woman who was attacked by three dogs and later died.
Alberta smartphone app intended to reduce overdose deaths in drug users at home

Mike Ellis, associate minister of mental health and addictions, says the app is free and is available across the province, including in rural and First Nations communities.

Teamwork and the art of avoiding mistakes

The power of critical thinking

High school students across Canada to be trained on how to administer naloxone

Stay overnight

Ditching the shame and blame

Editorial: The Mistakes Issue

Whether racism is ‘shocking’ stirs colleges of physicians and surgeons national meeting

B.C. Greens launch hearings on healthcare 'crisis'

Calgary mayor wants province to reverse changes to emergency medical dispatch

Alberta smartphone app intended to reduce overdose deaths in drug users at home