Cultural Competence

CMA Health Summit doctors see optimism because of ‘strings attached’ with new federal health funding.

Women are not getting the clitoral stimulation they need. And cultural messages about the supremacy of intercourse feed into this.

But people with agreeableness and conscientiousness traits more likely to get vaccinated

Every dollar invested in free contraception can save up to $9 in managing unwanted pregnancies, said Calgary physician Dr. Rupinder Toor. So why is Canada the only country with universal healthcare that doesn't offer universal birth control coverage?

As Dr. Robert Dickson discovers, there can be be a variety of allergic phenomena in highly atopic patients.

The patient reported having “moles” on her body for years. For some reason, the number of lesions and extent of distribution had increased dramatically over the past few months.

Dr. Biagio Iannantuono, who was appointed in 2017 as interim chief of staff at a hospital in the cottage community of Muskoka, Ont., proposed the genital exams as a training exercise for the three hospital staffers.

Dr. Alika Lafontaine says goodbye to the CMA president position on Aug. 16. Here’s his final message to Canada’s MDs.