Compassion Fatigue

The second in a video series from Dr. John Crosby

As the founder of the Edmonton Women in Health Network, I have listened to several troubling stories of overt and covert sexism and racism that women physicians continue to endure within their healthcare and academic institutions.

'Do we really have to prove that we’re frontline workers'

One might think that helping out a junior resident in the operating room means teaching them an important skill or giving them an opportunity to take some extra time to work on aspects of a procedure that they’ve been trying to improve. However, this was not one of those moments.

A Saskatchewan man who had a heart attack after a hike in the Rocky Mountains says it was divine intervention that the same cardiac surgeon who helped resuscitate him near the trail would operate on him days later. Darrell Parker, his wife, Shirley, and their son and daughter-in-law were hiking on June 20 at Grassi Lakes, a popular trail near Canmore, Alta.