Patient Compliance

Another example of a specialist dumping work on family doctor
It's an ages old contention—and Dr. Adam Stewart wants to draw some fresh attention to how specialists can make life harder for family doctors.
Why effective suicide-risk assessment might look different for Black children
‘If the child is not telling you, they probably don’t feel comfortable telling you.’

Updated Best Possible Medication History Interview Guides help prevent errors

ISMP Canada and GeriMedRisk created the guides to creating Best Possible Medication Histories, which are an important way to counter inaccurate, incomplete drug information.
Countries struggle to draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to avoid mistakes made during COVID

WHO’s countries asked the U.N. health agency to oversee talks for a pandemic agreement in 2021.
Patients inform new ‘map’ for healthcare transformation—now our policy makers just need to listen

Being lost in the woods is not a pleasant experience. Being lost with others, though, with a common plan, can be comforting.
How techs can help mitigate climate change

Pressurized metered-dose inhalers are a major culprit of medication-related emissions.
We looked at genetic clues to depression in more than 14,000 people. What we found may surprise you

These psychiatry researchers think contrasting ‘reactive’ depression with ‘endogenous depression is far too simple.
Chart it: Every. Single. Time.

Take the words right out of their mouths: advice to earlier career colleagues.
Pharmacare’s design could further fragment and politicize Canada’s health system

Pharmacare models seem to entail piecemeal expansion of drug coverage following separate negotiations with each province. I believe this approach risks incorporating several negative aspects of the complex and unequal U.S. health insurance system.
Doctor as patient: The honeymoon is almost over

Parkinson's feels like getting older on steroids. My tremor and I have reached a mutual agreement that he will not bother me during my piano playing as long as I allow him to go rampant while I am slurping my hot soup.

Another example of a specialist dumping work on family doctor

Why effective suicide-risk assessment might look different for Black children

Updated Best Possible Medication History Interview Guides help prevent errors

Countries struggle to draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to avoid mistakes made during COVID

Patients inform new ‘map’ for healthcare transformation—now our policy makers just need to listen

How techs can help mitigate climate change

We looked at genetic clues to depression in more than 14,000 people. What we found may surprise you

Chart it: Every. Single. Time.

Pharmacare’s design could further fragment and politicize Canada’s health system

Doctor as patient: The honeymoon is almost over