Discussions

We’re clinical providers who have implemented vaccination programs from the time they were first available, and we recognize how profoundly vaccines reduce the severity of COVID-19. Based on our experiences running vaccine programs, we have concerns about the use of increasingly punitive policies towards people who remain unvaccinated.

‘I’m not going to sugarcoat this,’ says Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes. ‘Medicine is the toughest I’ve seen right now. But I’m still grateful for it.’

In the past I served on the board at the Ontario Pharmacists Association, spending about six years dedicated to voicing issues relevant to the practice of pharmacy. Along the way I have used my blog to highlight issues, promote discussion, and encourage involvement in promoting change. 

Medical conferences require a fundamental rethink shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient attendance likely the norm going forward.

How life lessons as an Olympic athlete inform Dr. Wickenheiser’s approach to self-care.

On the surface, there are many compelling reasons for mandating pediatric vaccinations for in-school attendance. While children are far less likely to develop serious illness from COVID-19 than adults, the risk is nonetheless greater than for other vaccine preventable diseases for which there are school mandates in some provinces. 

Anger keeps me sharp, reading up and asking questions, so I don’t make the same mistakes. But I worry about the personal cost.

It seems difficult to have a conversation with someone who can’t stop honking their horn or screaming with a placard. And here we remain as medical professionals doing the best we possibly can to hold it all together day to day to day.