General Practice/Family Medicine

As women tend to speak, share, and reconnect, many men grieve in silence, a difference that can deepen suffering and even shorten lives.

Cough, cough, wheeze: Take a quick tour of Canada's new antibiotic treatment guidance on pharyngitis, acute bronchitis, acute sinusitis and and community acquired pneumonia.

Members of the Quebec Federation of General Practitioners voted 97% in favour of the agreement in principle reached with the government on Dec. 11.

A patient with shingles at Dr. Robert Dickson's clinic has a valid concern about virus spreading.

In a statement on social media, Dubé says he is not the right person to continue negotiations with family doctors over changes to a controversial doctor-payment law that he helped push through the legislature.

In May, Health PEI published draft operational guidelines showing the agency planned on instituting a key performance indicator of 24 patients per day for family doctors, based on an average appointment time of 15 minutes.

Year after year, the Christmas season brings a predictable set of medical issues through our doors or into the emergency departments. Here’s an informal peek at the medical mayhem underneath the Christmas tree.

Among the problems with Bill 2, says prominent Quebec physician, Dr. Geneviève Dechêne, is that doctors who care for vulnerable patients in family medicine groups, at home, and in long-term care facilities, do not feel represented.