Compassion Fatigue

Let’s look at the arguments given for adding this third year to FPs’ medical training.

Alberta family physician Dr. Ian Gebhardt was found guilty by the CPSA of inappropriate touching that included oral sex on a 26-year-old male patient with a development age of between nine to 14 years old.

User fees have steep downsides (and are banned by the Canada Health Act)—an analysis of the alternatives

Current practices are different across the country and can be discriminatory, the group says.

Dr. Jabir Jassam realizes a colleague has a different attitude toward work-life balance during a fishing trip.

Feeling your empathy wane? It’s not your fault. And you can get it back.

A Medscape online survey completed by 1,063 Canadian doctors last year and released this spring found that 67% of Canadian physicians said they don’t have enough time to maintain their close friendships.

Digital communication can make the doctor-patient relationship more fraught.