Patient-First Language

Ontario investing $8.7 M to expand Quinte healthcare network
Milestone for Nova Scotia's first all-women transplant surgery team

Dr. Hiebert stressed the need to normalize women working in surgery, which is why she gifted her nieces with two surgical dolls to play with.
Me and my doctor pet
New app aims to rate doctors on cultural sensitivity

The Support Network for Indigenous Women and Women of Colour is seeking funding to develop the app, similar to Yelp. They want to collect information around experiences with medical practitioners, and help people find culturally-sensitive providers.
Books: ‘Have compassion. Breathe’

A Hollywood writer, med school dropout and now therapist writes about how providing talk therapy also requires self-therapy.
COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago
Build your best practice and patients will come
How Dr. Shelly Sarwal used her assisted death to help develop guidelines around organ donation

The Halifax physician was diagnosed with multiple system atrophy in her mid-40s. In deciding to pursue MAID, she wanted to key things: to have control when she died and to donate her organs.

Spotlight on cannabis research in pediatrics