Discussions

I am a very busy physician who is fully booked on clinic days. My last patient is booked at 4:45 p.m. and I rarely leave after 5:30 p.m. I leave with all my charting done.

Dr. Robert Dickson encounters a patient in his walk-in clinic whose stress level is causing skin reactions.

Virtual care presents an opportunity to provide specific types of care to those who might otherwise have difficulty accessing that care in-person. But are there pitfalls to how national licensure might affect policies around virtual care? 

Mr. X. has a sore throat. He buys some penicillin and gives himself, not enough to kill the streptococci (bacteria known to cause sore throats and tonsils) but enough to educate them to resist penicillin. He then infects his wife.

The pandemic was the straw the broke our healthcare system's back. In this satirical piece Dr. Mark Wise asks himself why don't we hand things over to an enterprise that really seems to know what it's doing?

There is a paucity of research on a child’s capacity to make decisions in school settings.

Each year, about 1% of Canadians sustain concussions, amounting to some 400,000 concussions in Canada alone.