Cultural Competence

Alberta legislature sitting to kick off with focus on rights bill, transgender policy
The premier has said she plans to restrict access to gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth.
MAiD and marginalized people: Coroner’s reports shed light on assisted death in Ontario
Laws initially intended to compassionately help Canadians avoid suffering a painful death have metastasized into policies facilitating suicides of other Canadians seeking death to escape a painful life.

The incredible power of counseling psychology

Dr. Davidicus Wong thinks again about the basic principles of neuroscience that every doctor should understand.
QUIZ: Ghosts in medicine

Ghosts are everywhere in medicine, from cancer to orthopedic surgery. Test your knowledge of some of these spectres.
POLL: Does the idea of reallocating more of FPs’ time from the healthy to the sick have merit?

See what your colleagues say. Take our weekly doctor poll.
CPSA reacts to Danielle Smith’s plan to limit regulators’ ability to ‘control personal opinions’

In a video posted to social media on Wednesday, the premier outlined plans to bring legislation next year to ‘ensure that professional regulatory bodies are limited to regulating their members professional competence and conduct and not their speech.’
Canadian Paediatric Society says doctors should regularly screen kids for reading difficulties

New guidance issued Wednesday says family doctors, nurses, pediatricians and other medical professionals who care for school-aged kids are in a unique position to help struggling readers access educational and specialty supports.
Targeting menstrual pain: fewer soft drinks, more coffee

Analysis of the dietary habits of young women revealed that the risk of dysmenorrhea was 24% higher among soft drink consumers.
A ‘revolutionary’ new painless IUD comes to market

The Yanae intra-uterine device, developed in France and distributed by the young Canadian pharmaceutical company 49Care, incorporates a flexible inserter for pain-free insertion.
The immigrants

When present, they are not noticed, and when absent, they are not missed, says Dr. Jabir Jassam, reflecting on feelings of blurred identity.

Alberta legislature sitting to kick off with focus on rights bill, transgender policy

MAiD and marginalized people: Coroner’s reports shed light on assisted death in Ontario

The incredible power of counseling psychology

QUIZ: Ghosts in medicine

POLL: Does the idea of reallocating more of FPs’ time from the healthy to the sick have merit?

CPSA reacts to Danielle Smith’s plan to limit regulators’ ability to ‘control personal opinions’

Canadian Paediatric Society says doctors should regularly screen kids for reading difficulties

Targeting menstrual pain: fewer soft drinks, more coffee

A ‘revolutionary’ new painless IUD comes to market

The immigrants