While this rate is falling, mainly due to greater use of non-surgical treatments for many gynecological conditions, hysterectomy appears to be normalized in Canada. Many women and some physicians view hysterectomy as a routine part of aging or natural step after childbearing.
It is welcome news that Conservative Premier Doug Ford has appointed Dr. Jane Philpott to lead a new primary care action team in Ontario. Will it be enough?
While I have always been a staunch advocate for DigitalHealth and the secure, efficient systems that PrescribeIT strives to provide, I cannot support a platform that imposes transaction fees solely on pharmacies.
There are real and historic reasons for governments to ban medical procedures, treatments or public behaviours relating to our collective health. But how is that decided?
I'm sitting on the couch completing the charts I've dragged home from the office. Age 14, my daughter Emma confronts me with the eyeroll and contemptuous drawl of the young teenager. “Don’t think I’m ever going to be a doctor, Mom!”
As such, rather than blaming female physicians, we must critically assess the systemic factors that lead to lower earnings and dispel myths about the physician wage gap.
