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- 11/8/2020
Learning medicine between worlds
I think about certain patients, displaced from the certainties of their lives in their home countries. They have, for complicated reasons, chosen to leave the world they grew up in to make a new life in Canada. The dominant culture here is so foreign, so strange to them. Some are ready to embrace it and go forward, and some are stuck and cannot adjust. - 11/8/2020
Diabetes Canada pushes for provincial governments to fund continuous glucose monitoring devices
New technologies like continuous glucose monitoring are one way to keep diabetes patients from needing to be physically present with their physicians to manage their health, said Dr. Jeremy Gilbert, an endocrinologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. - 11/8/2020
Waterloo region physician recruitment goes virtual
The typical in-person meet and greet and tour put on each year by the Kitchener-Waterloo chamber of commerce was instead held using an online platform. - 11/8/2020
Deferring CPP and OAS not a cut-and-dried case for doctors
If you have recently retired and are in your mid-60s, you have a choice to make. Do you take your government pension entitlements, or defer them to a later date in order to receive a higher amount? - 11/8/2020
Manitoba teaming up with doctors to enhance virtual care
New options will allow specialists and family physicians in the province to offer more comprehensive virtual visits, giving them more time to take a full patient history, review test results with patients and discuss treatment options. - 11/8/2020
Mask laws: Necessary or nonsense?
- 11/5/2020
Is cannabis substitution an effective tool to curb opioid addiction?
Dr. Samuel Hickcox, the physician lead for addictions medicine at Nova Scotia Health, said there isn't "high-quality scientific evidence" supporting such a substitution program. - 11/5/2020
Systematic review examines effectiveness of therapies for fibromyalgia
Some therapies produce small reductions in pain and improvements in quality of life, but evidence is lacking for most therapies. - 11/5/2020
Healthcare theatre program focuses on virtual care to boost med students' communication skills
The abilities to connect and communicate that such programs are meant to foster are all the more important in the pandemic's context.