Diffusing Difficult Patients

As the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario faces more public scrutiny over the way it handles cases of physicians sexually assaulting patients, one statistic is telling: the number of doctors with gender restrictions on their practice.

Alleged shooter was reportedly upset co-worker spurned his romantic advances.

A doctor in Quebec who refused to release private patient information to police has been exonerated in an investigation into the incident, the CBC reports here.

Out on your own, you realize you’ve been shielded from certain things during training, and being the perfect doctor is harder than you had thought

Nova Scotia’s Dr. Amanda Woodhouse faced threats—and worse—from patients after she decided to clamp down on prescribing pain drugs, as the Chronicle-Herald reports.

For a patient with a terminal illness, I felt I was a reminder of bad news and a focal point for anger, so I let her decide when she wanted contact

Don't take it personally—that's the message from the Canadian Medical Protective Agency to doctors regarding physician ratings sites.