Patient-First Language

Clinical guidelines feel awfully different when you're the patient being subjected to them, rather than the MD using them.

The case occurred pre-MAiD but it still stays with Dr. Romayne Gallagher for it explored a matter of meaning.

Being a physician is itself a risk factor for health anxiety. Before I started in medicine, I had the general obliviousness towards health which is the natural state of the average 22-year-old. Soon, however, that vanished.

CCCEP-approved learning in four modules, covering themes of contraception, endometriosis, uterine fibroids and pharmacist-patient communication.

In the second half of this series, Dr. Ted Jablosnki explores the pros and cons of the options available for including trans athletes in competitive sport.

Three provincial ministers say in an open letter published this morning that the government is not limiting the availability of health services in English, and there will never be language requirements in Quebec to treat a patient.

‘It is clear that the confusion and uncertainty created by the directive is likely to have adverse consequences that cannot be ignored.’

A recent case at a walk-in perhaps reflects a growing problem in society.