Practice Tips

Patient safety and eHealth safety: Both priorities for health professionals

While health IT offers opportunities to improve patient safety, it may also inadvertently introduce risks. Here's what eHealth stakeholders are doing to protect patient safety.
Pradaxa now contraindicated in patients with prosthetic heart valves

New contraindication is based on interim results from trial that compared dabigatran and warfarin in patients with prosthetic heart valves.
Quick Q&A with Dr. Sterling Haynes
Doctors—you're spending more and more time teaching

Teaching time for doctors jumps 31%
Screen for depression in diabetes—and vice versa

Meta-analysis confirms reciprocal link between the conditions
U.K.: Overweight doctors and nurses 'should be given stomach stapling surgery because they are a bad example to patients'
B.C. doctor barred from hospital for inadequate skills

VICTORIA | A specialist in internal medicine and neurology has been barred from working in a Victoria hospital because of his skill level.
Obstetrics nurses make gangnam style parody

Obstetric nurses at Sunnybrook hospital recently made a YouTube video of a Gangnam Style parody.

Student Career Guide 2012: Embrace practice change in your new career