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Compassion Fatigue

  • Quebec nurses union votes in favour of new collective agreement

    The details of the deal were not disclosed, but a major sticking point had been the government’s push for nurses to be more flexible in moving between healthcare facilities to address staffing needs.
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  • POLL: Do you keep up with your paperwork daily?

    See what your colleagues say. Take our weekly doctor poll.
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  • Ontario covers reconstructive surgery after breast cancer—so why not breast prostheses?

    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.
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  • Tips on primary care psychotherapy

    FPs face growing pressure as 80% of Canadians turn to them for mental healthcare—but how are they equipped to handle today’s demand?
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  • Feeling resentful and angry? Try this.

    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.
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  • Dealing with the three phases of pharmacist ego

    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.
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  • Part 1: A fine balance

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

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