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- 2/21/2022
Everyone is a doctor
Dr. Google—without filtering and sifting—has caused more problems instead of providing solutions. It isn't just anxious patients who are changing, says Dr. Jabir Jassam. - 2/21/2022
Tamara Lich, key organizer of anti vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa, denied bail
An Ontario court judge issued the decision in Ottawa this morning, saying she believed there was a substantial likelihood Lich would reoffend if released. - 2/21/2022
Swabbing floors to detect COVID-19 could be a useful indicator of the disease’s spread
Omicron spreads so quickly that it is no longer feasible to use individual testing to track how many people are infected in a population. And that means we no longer have the basic information we need to inform public health mitigation policies. New strategies for keeping tabs on the virus are needed. - 2/21/2022
The book of awesome: The A to Z of little joys in medicine
Sometimes it’s the little things that bring joy to medicine. Hear from members of the Medical Post’s physician advisory board and other doctors, an alphabet’s worth for our Joy Issue. - 2/18/2022
Self-care and OTC myths . . . busted!
In this new series, students from the third-year Advanced Patient Self-Care class at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy have created short videos in which they explore common self-care/OTC-related myths. - 2/17/2022
Ottawa police say 70 people arrested so far at protest
The force made the announcement after police clad in riot gear and touting gas masks and tear-gas guns converged on a large crowd of protesters to contain them near the Westin Hotel in downtown Ottawa. - 2/17/2022
Reflections on gratitude and the unexpected
Accept rather than resist the unexpected—that's the lesson that came to Dr. Ginevra Mills on a beach in February. - 2/17/2022
Patients without doctors—coast to coast
Did policymakers have a blind spot that allowed the family physician shortage to get this bad? What’s next? - 2/17/2022
Dr. Teresa Tam says Canada is past peak of latest Omicron-fueled wave
Dr. Theresa Tam released new national epidemiology and modelling that shows progress in key indicators, such as lab test positivity and reported cases.