Patient Lifestyle

Between wind, snow and plenty of nasty wet rain we've gotten this year, the Canadian outdoors aren't always appealing in winter. But these kinesiology professors want you to get up and get outside.

“The vast, vast majority of these individuals were unhoused,” an emergency physician told CBC News.

Dr. Michael Warner wonders how and whether the province's plan to tackle the surgery backlog will work.

Patients (and politicians) will love this. But in my view, patient satisfaction should not be used as a metric to determine any healthcare policy.

As part of an ongoing video series, Dr Ramneek Dosanjh, past president of Doctors of BC, hosted a discussion on the role physicians can play in the health of the planet

Dr. Claudio Jeldrès should have informed the patient that the procedure did not work and that a subsequent spermogram showed an abundant presence of sperm, according to the Collège des médecins du Québec.

Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa says Tuesday was the busiest day in the hospital's 47-year history, with 361 patients admitted.

The sources—who were not authorized to speak ahead of an announcement set for next week—said the province will expand existing independent health facilities' capacities in its first phase of surgical healthcare reform.