Emergency Medicine

Awards for media engagement, helping marginalized communities, and innovation were presented to Canadian doctors.

Reading daily safety incident reports leaves the president of St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton extremely concerned for the safety of healthcare workers.

Given this rapid pace of growth, it can be challenging to keep current. This article offers an overview of vaccines recently approved and/or marketed in Canada to help make sense of all these recent changes.

It is much easier to fantasize about the various ways your pharmacy can be successful. We can picture a rising prescription volume, inventing new workflow to get medication reviews done efficiently, conducting a vaccine clinic or implementing robotics for blister packaging. However, the much harder mental exercise is imagining how your pharmacy can fail. It means predicting the unpredictable, without letting it control you.

At a walk-in, the variety of problems is wide—and so is the amount of time that elapses since a concern began, Dr. Robert Dickson finds again.

A recent study found that patients who use their phones at the ER were far more likely to get discharged.

Young FP alert: Who’s offering the best deal? P.E.I. appears to have competitive edge.

How one patient’s mystery symptoms led to a life-saving discovery in the ER.