Patient Compliance

If we are to survive, we must rethink our service models not as transactions, but as trust lines.

For the Medical Post’s upcoming print edition, themed R-E-S-P-E-C-T, we want to hear about times you felt disrespected and also how you handled it.

New evidence from our team suggests that not only did the reform reduce ED strain while increasing demand for outpatient physician care, but it also has done something neither side imagined: reduce inequities in access to care.

You know the drill. Something like this has happened to you countless times. How did you respond?

Dr. Jabir Jassam finds that defending his dignity cost him more than $250.

A patient had burned her right palm on a curling iron, over a week previously, sought no care, but applied a series of over-the-counter products.

Physicians are socialized to be humble. We’re shamed for pride, especially as an individual. But who, exactly, does this serve? Physician pay keeps eroding while the cost of living—and patient anger—rises.

Province-wide One Person One Record clinical information system to be deployed in all 46 hospitals and community health centres by the end of 2026.