Compassion Fatigue

Advocates for breast cancer survivors and people who have had ostomy surgeries, such as colostomies, are calling for changes to the way an Ontario program covers certain medical devices, saying it leaves them paying a lot of money out of pocket.

FPs face growing pressure as 80% of Canadians turn to them for mental healthcare—but how are they equipped to handle today’s demand?

Even though we no longer have to fight or flee live-threatening danger all day, our human brains are programmed to scan for danger and remember negative experiences over positive ones. Here’s how to flip the switch on that program and be more content.

Across years of experience practising pharmacy, a pharmacist may go through a natural incline in ego during a steep initial learning phase, followed by a plateau. Here pharmacists have seen many of the more intense challenges already and the number of new headaches flattens out. Finally, towards approximately the last third of the pharmacists’ career, they begin feeling less driven by ego and let the problems around them simmer or settle.

The art of ending a doctor-patient relationship (more advice to early career colleagues) from Dr. Eric Cadesky.

We crave security but we can’t try new things without risk—so how to strike the balance?

Ruminating over a stressful event is like holding your hand on a hot burner. Why do we do that? And how can we stop?

When Oliver Burkhardt underwent leukemia treatment at age 9, he'd enter the hospital wearing his patch-covered denim jacket. Pokemon. Superman. NASA. Police, fire, military. Classic rock bands.