Withdrawal Management Services, operated by Unity Health Toronto, is free and funded by the Ministry of Health. It is one of four publicly funded residential detox facilities in Toronto that helps people get off drugs and alcohol.
There are real and historic reasons for governments to ban medical procedures, treatments or public behaviours relating to our collective health. But how is that decided?
As such, rather than blaming female physicians, we must critically assess the systemic factors that lead to lower earnings and dispel myths about the physician wage gap.
Dr. Allison Crawford, the chief medical officer for the helpline, says people having suicidal thoughts or other mental health distress can get help 24 hours a day, seven days a week no matter where they live in Canada.
The move comes after David Eby’s newly elected government eliminated the stand-alone Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, which advocates say had no ‘teeth.’
Leisha Porter was 44 years old and sweating all night, so she asked her doctor if she might be in menopause. The doctor told her it was ‘very unlikely.’
