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‘I’m worried Dr. Perle,’ my patient said gravely. This was unlike her; she was usually a very tough and stoic customer. ‘What’s wrong?’ I asked.

Published studies demonstrate that first contact physiotherapists order less imaging and reduce the need for prescription pain relief.

It was Cassie—our two-year-old chocolate Lab—who taught me how to live long and live well.

Television characters who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital are more likely to receive CPR than people in real life. But are these characters performing it correctly?

Sex differences in pain prevalence, perception and response to treatment are among the most consistent findings in pain epidemiology and experimental pain research.

People with diabetes are at higher risk for complications from vaccine-preventable diseases, even if their blood glucose levels are well controlled.

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I recently interviewed Dr. Anthony Miller, who’s in his second year of his family medicine integrated emergency medicine residency in Cape Breton, N.S.