Discussions

When a bubble sheet replaces the bimanual exam.

As I write this, it appears that once again, the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ontario Medical Association have been unable to agree on a contract for physicians.

Antidepressants are commonly used medications, with about 16% of people in Canada using antidepressants in 2023.

If you’ve been on social media lately—perhaps scrolling in the middle of the night, when you know you shouldn’t but you just can’t sleep—you might have seen those videos promoting this get-to-sleep technique.

It is important to inform patients that they are quite likely to experience some rebound symptoms when reducing the dose or discontinuing their PPIs.

Many concerns at our clinic are common and diagnosable from a distance, before actually taking a history or doing a close examination—but not all of them.

Let’s have no more calls for involuntary hospitalization for those who are both homeless and severely mentally ill. Quebec has a far better alternative; it’s voluntary, more humane, effective, evidence-based and cheap.

Every night, millions of people stop breathing without knowing it.