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- 12/12/2022
Newer docs have similar habits as older peers on patient interactions: study
Regardless of when they actually started practicing, primary care providers peak on patient volume around the same time. - 12/12/2022
9 steps to reboot your financial portfolio
A book review of Dan Bortolotti’s ‘Reboot your Portfolio’ on constructing a low-cost, low-maintenance, globally diversified ETF portfolio. - 12/12/2022
Ukraine: Doctors from occupied city open hospital in Kyiv
A nurse wounded by a Russian sniper was spirited out wrapped in sheets. Another, sickened by the thought of working for the people who destroyed his home, sneaked out a side door and walked out through Mariupol's shattered streets. - 12/12/2022
CLINICAL QUIZ: Lip ulcer
A 54-yr-old rancher presents with a history of lip ulcer. For 30-years he regularly chewed tobacco. - 12/12/2022
'Supplies are tight': Canadian Blood Services concerned about current inventory
The organization set an ambitious goal in June of attracting 100,000 new donors to address its smallest donor base in a decade. - 12/11/2022
Patients leaving overcrowded Nova Scotia ER without being seen: managers
While it is well known that emergency rooms have been crowded and struggling to cope, it's rare for managers to make such blunt statements of the problems in the province's hospitals. - 12/11/2022
BC Children's prepared to double bunk patients during busy respiratory illness season
The memo, sent Friday, says similar measures have been implemented in other years and any decision must be made in consultation with the hospital's infection prevention and control team. - 12/11/2022
Ontario invests $20M in operating costs for new MRI machines
Health Minister Sylvia Jones says the money will be geared toward small and rural hospitals who do not yet have MRI machines. - 12/11/2022
Singh threatens to pull out of supply and confidence agreement over healthcare
The deal prevents the NDP from voting for a motion of no-confidence in the government and triggering an election before 2025. - 12/11/2022
Inside SickKids: How the pediatric hospital's ICU was saved from near collapse
The hospital has 42 physical pediatric ICU beds—not counting its neonatal intensive care unit—but struggles to staff more than 36 on any given day.