Cultural Competence

Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes grapples with guilt over the perceived imbalance between a demanding medical career and the time spent with her children.

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Sometimes passionate interests serve as escapes from underlying issues, argues Dr. Jabir Jassam.

Among residents, experiences with uncivilized behaviour by doctors seem more frequent for those with certain characteristics. Do you happen to be a young, not-so-tall, female junior trainee? Oh boy.

The Tribunal found that the pharmacy technician had abused his position of trust by manipulating the inventory records at his pharmacy to conceal and facilitate his theft.

As a historian of premodern Japan, Alessandro Poletto has studied its healing experts. Both literature and historical records demonstrate that the boundaries between what are often called ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ were indistinct.

The study of 2.2 million females between the ages of 12 and 19 found that the risk of premature death was 1.5 times higher in those who had one teen pregnancy and 2.1 times higher among those with at least two teen pregnancies.

Dr. Robert Dickson sees something dramatic in his walk-in that addresses common issues we don’t often consider.