Patient-First Language

Spirituality not only offers some doctors a way to help patients, it also helps them cope with their jobs

It's happened again. I just finished an email “conversation” with a pharmacist whose list of activities, interests and accomplishments makes me feel like an underachieving slacker. This particular pharmacist is also a writer, presenter and health educator who has just finished renovating a riverside heritage home. She is preparing to launch and market line of cosmeceutical skin care products she has developed. And she calls herself retired! (Yes, I mean you, Ms. Collins-Beaudin.)

Researcher says often-quoted figure is double the real value

From her chair on the Health Council of Canada, Jeanne Besner has been directing research focused on the effective, efficient utilization of the health-care workforce, with a focus on nurses. Besner aims to understand the unique contributions various professionals offer in order to redesign how chronic care is delivered in a collaborative care model.

As defences are overcome, role-playing can help explore issues