Cultural Competence

Sarah-Lynn Dunlops encourages techs to stay curious about the diverse population of patients.

Knowing his patient was a chain smoker, Montreal family physician Dr. Samir Habib should have talked to him immediately about his lung X-ray results, ruled the Collège des médecins du Québec. That conversation never happened.

WHO said it was concerned by the “racist and stigmatizing language'' that arose after monkeypox spread to more than 100 countries. It said numerous individuals and countries asked the organization “to propose a way forward to change the name.''

'Parents are telling me they will be going to the ER because they don’t have other options,' warned Toronto pediatrician Dr. Aviva Lowe.

Dr. Michael Patterson, the outgoing chief officer of public health, is going back to full-time hospital work.

Quebec's decision to move pediatric primary care away from pediatricians to FPs is creating even more challenges.

Crowds in China angered by the controls have called on leader Xi Jinping to resign in the biggest show of public dissent in decades.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rolling back on a promise to introduce legislation this fall that would have outlawed restrictions on people not vaccinated against COVID-19.