Patient-First Language

The health authority says employees heard noises outside the Ste-Croix hospital early Tuesday morning and discovered the woman and her newborn.

Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes grapples with guilt over the perceived imbalance between a demanding medical career and the time spent with her children.

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Sometimes passionate interests serve as escapes from underlying issues, argues Dr. Jabir Jassam.

Among residents, experiences with uncivilized behaviour by doctors seem more frequent for those with certain characteristics. Do you happen to be a young, not-so-tall, female junior trainee? Oh boy.

As a historian of premodern Japan, Alessandro Poletto has studied its healing experts. Both literature and historical records demonstrate that the boundaries between what are often called ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ were indistinct.

Dr. Robert Dickson sees something dramatic in his walk-in that addresses common issues we don’t often consider.

Every ER doctor gets this question. ‘So, what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen?’