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TORONTO | A study has found that 70% of females in Ontario are responsible for making the healthcare decisions in their household.

Dr. Marco Terwiel is a semi-retired family physician in Maple Ridge, B.C., who practises part-time in Nunavut, mainly through telemedicine. He also teaches part-time in the University of British Columbia undergraduate program in the department of family medicine. "I enjoy life every day in spite of the limitations advancing age impose."

Nurse practitioners in New York and New Jersey are filling a gap in healthcare as frontline providers for the homebound elderly and other patients with limited care access.

Dr. Anders Ericsson (PhD) is known as the ‘10,000 hours guy.’ The Swedish-born professor of psychology at Florida State University published seminal research on talent, popularized by writer Malcolm Gladwell, which seemed to answer the question: What makes a superstar?

Mini biography: After graduating from medical school in 1973, I practised family practice for 37 years and have finally retired to Bracebridge, Ont., and assist at surgery in Brantford, Ont. My busy practice kept me away from many of the pastimes I liked, but now I have time to fish. I delivered babies from 1976 to 1984, and after that only did office work. My hobby of scuba diving has taken me from Australia to Wakatobi to Borneo and to almost all the Caribbean islands. As long as it is warm, I will dive in it.