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- 2/3/2022
Politicizing COVID-19 vaccination efforts has fuelled vaccine hesitancy
We’re clinical providers who have implemented vaccination programs from the time they were first available, and we recognize how profoundly vaccines reduce the severity of COVID-19. Based on our experiences running vaccine programs, we have concerns about the use of increasingly punitive policies towards people who remain unvaccinated. - 2/3/2022
Ontario Medical Students Association seeking stories from unmatched grads
And the deadline is fast approaching to hear from them. - 2/3/2022
Case report: A remote rash
Dr. Robert Dickson found diagnosis of a recent rash much more difficult when the patient declined to be seen in person. - 2/3/2022
Large rigs set up near main entrance to Manitoba legislature
Protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other restrictions spread Friday to Manitoba's capital, where more than two dozen large trucks and farm vehicles blocked the main entrance to the legislature grounds and one block of a nearby street. - 2/3/2022
Hospitals, police prepare for planned protest outside Ontario legislature as Ottawa demonstrations continue
Women's College Hospital said its urgent care clinic would not offer in-person appointments Saturday—though it opened an additional clinic on Friday—and Mount Sinai said it recommended its ambulatory clinics review appointments and reschedule non-urgent care. - 2/3/2022
It may be possible for people who got Omicron to be reinfected with it, experts say
As many as four million Ontarians may have been infected with the Omicron variant, according to the province's science advisers, but their illnesses—particularly the milder ones—may not stop them from getting reinfected. - 2/2/2022
Beyond Jimmy Buffett: the new medical conference
Medical conferences require a fundamental rethink shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient attendance likely the norm going forward. - 2/2/2022
Financial restructuring at Laurentian U likely to mean higher rent for NOSM
This is based on recently released documents from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice referring to the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, which is overseeing the financial insolvency matters at LU. - 2/2/2022
Free passes to Canada's national parks are good medicine
The passes are being offered by Parks Canada through its partnership with the British Columbia Parks Foundation to allow healthcare providers like doctors, nurses and therapists who have registered for the program to "prescribe'' nature to patients dealing with both physical and mental health challenges.