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- 12/9/2021
‘It’s stressful to kill somebody’: the healthcare workers who support assisted dying
Interviews with medical practitioners often indicate an uneasy relationship for many healthcare workers with this practice. - 12/9/2021
Ontario med students teaching hairstylists and barbers to find skin cancer
Shave and a haircut and a . . . cancer warning? - 12/9/2021
'I stopped eating': Rise in eating disorders seen among Ontario youth during pandemic
In the last year, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children said it has seen a 35% annual increase in admissions to its eating disorder program, while its inpatient psychiatry and adolescent medicine unit has been consistently at or over capacity. - 12/9/2021
Nevada jury: Health insurers owe ER doctors $60M in damages
One of the largest U.S. health insurance companies and its branches in Nevada were found liable Tuesday for $60 million in punitive damages for underpaying out-of-network emergency medical providers. - 12/8/2021
Enter the magic land of physician LEADerShip
Simulation—so useful to teach a variety of clinical skills—can also be used to teach physician leadership. - 12/8/2021
How will the world decide when the pandemic is over?
There's no clear-cut definition for when a pandemic starts and ends, and how much of a threat a global outbreak is posing can vary by country. - 12/8/2021
Vaccine makers racing to update COVID shots, just in case
It's too soon to know how vaccines will hold up against omicron. - 12/8/2021
Ont. science table recommends weekly rapid tests in schools, workplaces in some areas
The science advisory table is advising public health units or neighbourhoods where new COVID-19 cases are near 35 per 100,000 people per week and where there is sustained exponential growth, to carry out weekly voluntary screening of unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people in elementary schools. - 12/8/2021
Saskatchewan privatizing some surgeries to reduce growing backlog from COVID-19
Health Minister Paul Merriman says the goal is to eliminate the backlog by achieving a three-month wait time by 2030.