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WEBOct 2, 2024 · Protecting HCWs and patients: An essential duty health-care leaders are neglecting. It is beyond time for our health-care leaders to empower an objective review of our system’s handling of this deadly and disabling airborne pandemic. It’s their duty to ensure a safe environment for patients and workers alike. Sep 2, 2024.
Test results: whose job is it to tell the patient? - Healthy Debate
WEBDec 18, 2012 · According to Jocelyn Charles, Chief of Family and Community Medicine at Sunnybrook, a physician who orders a test – for blood, ultrasound, X-rays or CT scans – is responsible for responding to abnormal results and communicating these results to the patient. “Specialists are expected to communicate their assessments, test results and ...
How long is too long? Assessing wait times in Canadian EDs
WEBIn 2018 to 2019, the average wait time for patients across Canadian EDs was three to four hours. This merely represents the time to first assessment by a physician. Since wait times vary from one province to another, some patients are more likely to be impacted than others. Quebec was found to have the longest wait time, at nearly five hours ...
When hope kills: Social media’s false promises to cancer patients
WEBAug 9, 2021 · In the Wild West of health misinformation on social media, hope kills. In a large study of 1.6 million patients with non-metastatic breast or colorectal cancer, patients were nearly five times more likely to die if they used an alternative therapy rather than a conventional treatment.. A July 2021 report headed by the Huntsman Cancer Institute outlined that one third of the most popular cancer ...
Out-of-province medical care: what you need to know.
WEBOct 8, 2019 · To get care out of province, your treatment must be considered medically necessary and not locally available. But just because you’re eligible, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be easy to achieve. Consider the case of Marion MacDonald, a 71-year-old Nova Scotia resident who was recently diagnosed with chondrosarcoma, a …
A violinist turned doctor is hitting all the right notes on YouTube
WEBApr 14, 2021 · Siobhan Deshauer is a fourth-year resident specializing in rheumatology at McMaster University. She also makes videos about health care under the social-media handle ViolinMD. Her channel now has over 770,000 subscribers; her top videos have 2.4 million views. We chatted with ViolinMD about her background, her …
Social Determinants Archives - Healthy Debate
WEBSep 25, 2024 · Persons with disabilities in Canada need and deserve access to justice, or they will continue to be pushed to the margins. The federal government has the opportunity to learn from mistakes and ease the way for people with disabilities who rely on social assistance to survive. Now it just needs to act. Jul 2, 2024.
When bread becomes difficult to swallow. - Healthy Debate
WEBJun 8, 2020 · Patients with EoE can have a number of symptoms such as trouble swallowing, painful swallowing, feeling like food gets stuck, abdominal pain, throwing up and more, all of which have the potential to severely impact patients’ quality of life. Certain foods – bread, or meat for example – can make these symptoms worse.
Specialization in family medicine: Is it a threat to generalism?
WEBDec 6, 2018 · In the National Physician Survey of 2014, 32 percent of family physicians in Canada described themselves as “family physicians with a specialty focus.”. In 2010, the number was 30.5 percent, and in 2007 it was 29.5 percent. In a survey published this past July in Canadian Family Physician, 36.6 percent of graduating family doctors reported ...
Why palliative care, not feeding tubes, is best for advanced …
WEBJan 31, 2017 · In recent years, however, there’s been a growing recognition that feeding tubes may do more harm than good for people with dementia, says Dr. Irene Ying, a palliative-care physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. For starters, the use of a tube can cause discomfort and may fail to dampen feelings of hunger or thirst.