Group medical visits have been used in some Western provinces over the past couple of years but it is such an intriguing idea—and many Canadians doctors aren’t familiar with it—we thought it should make our ideas list.
Patients are increasingly turning to tattoos instead of MedicAlert-type bracelets and pendants to alert emergency providers to their medical conditions.
Behavioural economics has long been used to study how emotional and social factors affect the economy: Human beings (and institutions) don’t always make rational decisions in everything, from shopping to stock purchases.
They care for the sickest patients, who sometimes die on their watch. When they do, critical care nurses want to make their final days and death as peaceful and painless as possible
