Healthcare

People keep saying to train more family doctors. I don’t think they realize that people trained in family medicine can pursue many different careers.

The report also notes Atlantic Registry participants still faced administrative burdens to practice outside their home province, such as privileging incorporation.

As part of a series of first-person true stories written by physicians, Dr. Kristina Powles reflects on the moments after a patient has given birth.

Preferred pharmacy networks present a controversy that pits two essential providers—pharmacies and drug insurers—against each other.

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Back in my day, in the U.K., I got a government grant, and my tuition fees were paid. Nowadays the debt load of new grads is hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on province. Let’s look at solutions.

Dr. Sonja Sophia Kustka unsuccessfully tried to argue that patient privacy and physician–patient privilege precludes her from being forced to send patient records as part of a college investigation.

Two drugs sold in the U.S. can modestly slow worsening of early-stage Alzheimer’s by clearing the brain of one of its hallmarks, a sticky gunk called amyloid. But until now, there haven’t been hints that removing amyloid far earlier—many years before the first symptoms appear—just might postpone the disease.