Many years ago, a professor at Dalhousie University told Dr. George Burden, a former writer for this magazine, an apocryphal story about Sir William Osler that had been passed down like an old rumour or a running joke.
A new report finds immigrants, refugees and other newcomers accounted for nearly 44% of Ontario's COVID-19 cases in the first half of the year. That's despite the fact overall testing rates were lower for those groups, and that they comprised just one-quarter of the population.
Mothers and their babies receiving care from the same primary care physician do not have better health outcomes than those being seen by different physicians—a finding that surprised the authors of a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
