General Practice/Family Medicine

Better definitions of PCOS needed as well as more screening for the type 2 diabetes population.

Sometimes, a meme is all you need. Here are some medical tidbits that made us chuckle this week.

The province announced yesterday that mask mandates will be lifted by mid-April at the latest, but Luc Boileau said today that the change could happen as soon as the third week of March. 

A review suggests that many clinical practices are not used according to standards and guidelines.

Contained in a recently tabled piece of labour legislation is a section that would wind up the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario, the profession's regulatory body that was established in 2013.

Intuitively, we doctors think it’s more efficient for us to control the dialogue of the encounter, rather than the patient. We’re wrong.

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The CMA encourages its members in B.C., be they doctors, residents or medical students to vote by the March 15 deadline, with results set to be shared on March 18.