Patient Lifestyle

But before we use a term, we should look at how it came to be and what it means to people.

In small care homes, each resident largely follows their own daily sleep schedule and has flexibility around meals and activities, in contrast with traditional ‘task-oriented’ homes that seek efficiencies through regimented wake and sleep times and mass meals.

A crucial recent interaction reminded me how important it is that—no matter how busy— we take just a moment with each patient to do what we do best.

A new poll suggests more than a third of Canadians say they have no choice but to seek health information online because they don’t have access to a doctor, further highlighting challenges posed by an ongoing physician shortage.

Let's give ourselves—and our patients—some grace around reaching goals as the year begins.

A new study from Australia involving over 83,000 participants found that prolonged standing may not improve heart health and could even increase the risk of certain circulatory problems.

Dr. Marjorie Dixon presented information on incidences of maternal preeclampsia as a marker for racial health disparities in pregnancy care at the Black Physicians’ Association of Ontario’s Women’s Health conference.