Compassion Fatigue

One more year syndrome. That's what Dr. Matt Poyner calls it. The tendency, as financial independence approaches, to seek problems, weak spots and reasons to worry.

The classical debate over whether medicine is a job or a calling got spicy recently after a tweet by a doctor with tens of thousands of followers.

Patients who called up one pharmacy in Hamilton, Ont. this week were met with a blunt answering machine message.

Dr. Jabir Jassam writes about the trials of having a colleague who seems to always give patients everything they ask for.

It’s time to get to the root causes of healthcare worker burnout.

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 vaccines administered in Canada, a milestone that offered hope for a new year after a dismal 2020.

An Ontario surgeon says: “We are disappointing our patients with issues beyond our control. We feel beat and discouraged and morally very much injured.”

A Harvard professor from the former Soviet Union with an affinity for Canada claims he has the solution, and it's already working in some Ontario hospitals.