Sometimes the greatest patients come in the smallest packages. At least that’s what paediatric pharmacist Tamara Milicevic has discovered in working at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto.
Suicide is an occupational hazard in their profession, with a rate for male doctors nearly double compared with the general public, and two and a half times higher for female physicians.
A Canadian psychiatrist is advising doctors to help address the needs of mentally ill Muslim patients whose medication regimen could be affected by fasting during the upcoming religious observance of Ramadan.