Perspectives on Ontario healthcare from a recent graduateA family physician and rural generalist, Dr. Tristan Brownrigg gives his perspective just six months out from the residency he completed in Ontario. Editorial: Two simple questionsI’m amazed that even after two decades of focusing on innovative practitioners, I continue to meet people who are launching inspiring new pharmacy career options. ‘The WhatsApp of healthcare’: Lumeca Messages lets providers send secure messages It’s 2024—why are healthcare providers still relying on faxes and phone messages to communicate? New OMA president tries to balance realism and hope Significant inflation and inadequate fee increases hamper the profession but Dr. Dominik Nowak pushes for a better future. N.S. doctors say not enough physicians to teach at new Cape Breton medical school Dr. Stacy MacDonald says the university is rushing the process. Can you solve Canada’s interoperability problems? Canada Health Infoway is launching a new centre for innovation (and a new grant) seeking clinician insight into this problem. Is triage a dead end for healthcare? The prevalence and pervasiveness of triage signals a serious imbalance in demand and supply that needs to be fixed. But triage is not the solution. ‘Choosing to do a job that pays less, because you enjoy it, only goes so far’ To keep their family medicine practice viable, Vanessa and her six female family physician colleagues subsidize their clinic with other work. A look at climate action healthcare professionals are taking across Canada From new plant-leaning hospital menus to fewer surgical gloves, gas-spewing inhalers and single-use syringes, healthcare professionals are finding ways to combat waste and pollutants. Physicians need more formal training on delivering bad news: study Two-thirds of physicians say they did not receive any education on breaking bad news to patients. First Previous 18 19 20 21 22 Next Last
