Practice Tips

The OCP sees clinical viewers as essential tools in the face of the expected expanded scope of practice coming to the province.

Dr. Angela Mailis compares two patients who demonstrate how subjective the experience of pain can be—and what can be done about such differing cases.

Pharmacogenomics is often touted as revolutionary. Does the thought of a healthcare revolution make you feel exhausted? I suggest we take this revolution in increments, exactly the way this useful technology will impact patient care.

From minimizing symptoms, delaying getting help and thinking they have the answers, physicians and pharmacists can struggle when they find themselves on the other side of caregiving.

As part of a series of first-person true stories written by physicians, psychiatrist Dr. Betty Tang is reminded of why she went to medical school.

We all know, in theory, that our time is limited. Living that reality means truly cherishing the time we have, not fretting about the things we can’t change and learning to value time on our own.

What Canadian healthcare needs is feedback from doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, data managers, economists and patients (and their families).

Regular physical activity is critical to improving health at any age, including people in their 80s and 90s—and doctors should be prescribing it more often to their oldest patients, a new paper published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says.