Compassion Fatigue

POLL: Do you take a lunch break? Would you like to have lunch with colleagues?

Take our weekly doctor poll and see what your colleagues say.
When strangers and friends intertwine

As Dr. Gary Kinney proves, even a chance encounter on public transit can have a meaningful impact.
Ford says he's working to boost health workers; won't commit to repeal wage cap law

Emergency departments across Ontario have been forced to close for hours or days at a time this summer due to staffing shortages.
Are consumers losing trust in healthcare professionals?

Survey shows consumers less trusting now than before the pandemic.
Ontario health minister looks to accredit international nurses faster

Nurses have called for wage restraint legislation known as Bill 124 to be repealed, but Jones says, "that is a conversation for another day.''
Medically assisted death 'needs to be a good choice, not a choice of last resort'

In June, the federal government broadened MAID eligibility.
More physicians are quitting. What is going on?

Dr. Jabir Jassam says it seems like FPs are quitting now more than any time. Why? Well, family doctors are quitting because they ‘can’t take it anymore.'
My one-year-old patient overdosed on opioids

Canadians every day, including children, are overdosing on opioids. As Dr. Matthew Schurter points out, it’s high time we did more to stop an epidemic killing far too many.

Hospital staffing strain 'unprecedented,' could peak soon: Ontario Health exec