Marjo Johne
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 10/6/2022
POLL: Have you had an injury or health issue from administering vaccines?
Giving injections day-in and out within a compressed period can lead to health issues such as repetitive strain injuries. Has this been a problem for you, or is it something you’re worried about? - 10/3/2022
'Disproportionate, unfair' and speculative: Professions tribunal overturns college ruling
Dr. Diana Craciunescu committed a serious ethical breach when she failed to provide adequate care to an elderly patient with cerebral bleeding, ruled Quebec's Tribunal des professions. But banning her for life from emergency medicine was not the right call. - 10/3/2022
Top doc, top dollars: 47% raise puts Manitoba's public health chief on top of the pay heap
Dr. Brent Roussin's recent salary bump of almost $203,00—for a total of $634,303 between April 2021 and March 2022—'looks terrible' in light of Manitoba's dismal performance during COVID, said ethicist Arthur Schafer. - 10/2/2022
A teen's 30-hour ordeal: A ruptured appendix, two ERs and not a single available ambulance
'Her fever was really high. Her heart rate was over 140. She was in agony,' the girl's mother recounted the nightmare that started in an Edmonton walk-in and took them through the clogged emergency departments of two hospitals. - 10/2/2022
Work on top of work: 1 in 3 doctors have a second job, says surveys
While most of the doctors who do extra work outside their practice said the work was related to their profession, a few do something completely different, like create board games or apps or breed animals. - 9/28/2022
Then and now: How Canada's medical and health sciences schools have advanced Indigenous health
In a number of schools, courses focused on care for patients from Indigenous communities have become a mandatory part of the curriculum. In some cases, the imperative to do this has come directly from students. - 9/28/2022
Small claims court fines doctor for grabbing woman who took another patient's file
Vancouver family physician Dr. Chung Cheung Ko told the B.C. civil resolutions tribunal he never touched Li Zheng, who had grabbed a piece of paper she mistakenly thought contained her father's information. - 9/27/2022
Doctors can use their platform to help nurses too, says Canada's top nurse
Leigh Chapman, who was recently appointed as Canada's chief nursing officer, talked to the Medical Post about her new role and the challenges ahead. - 9/25/2022
Disparaging defence: Doctor suspended for sexual abuse portrayed patient as a promiscuous weed smoker
In what the Ontario college's discipline tribunal called a 'grooming tactic,' Dr. Jamal Aboujamra tried to find out what the patient's mother knew 'to gauge from her reaction whether it was safe' to sexually abuse the patient.
