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Our gift guide for your fellow docs, staff, family and friends
They say it’s the thought that counts, and this year, we desperately need something to take our minds off our collective situation. Whether you’re looking for comfort, a sense of renewal or just a good laugh, we’ve got gift ideas for those you’re keen to remind you care.
'I stopped eating': Rise in eating disorders seen among Ontario youth during pandemic
In the last year, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children said it has seen a 35% annual increase in admissions to its eating disorder program, while its inpatient psychiatry and adolescent medicine unit has been consistently at or over capacity.

Ontario med students teaching hairstylists and barbers to find skin cancer

Shave and a haircut and a . . . cancer warning?
Nevada jury: Health insurers owe ER doctors $60M in damages

One of the largest U.S. health insurance companies and its branches in Nevada were found liable Tuesday for $60 million in punitive damages for underpaying out-of-network emergency medical providers.
It's an EHR, not a phone directory: 3-month suspension and $8K in hearing costs for pharmacist's peek into woman's health file

Soosai Stanislaus said he just wanted to help. But the province's privacy commissioner concluded earlier that he was trying to dissuade the woman from filing an insurance claim after she and Stanislaus got into a car accident.
Stars of wonder!

This week's reader photo submission is a stunning capture from a galaxy far, far away.
Change the terms and conditions: CMA meets social media giants pushing for healthcare workers' online safety

Terms and conditions for social media use should make it clear that threats and intimidation are not acceptable and will have consequences, said Dr. Katharine Smart, president of the Canadian Medical Association.
Ontario health issue new COVID-19 recommendations as holiday plans clash with rising cases

The health units recommended that everyone should limit indoor social gatherings in private dwellings to no more than 10 people, and all attendees aged 12 and older should be vaccinated.
Some N.B. patients learning their unvaccinated doctors have been suspended

Duncan Milne is diabetic and has borderline kidney function but says he only found out his doctor was suspended when the hospital in Fredericton called to say his scheduled blood tests had been cancelled.
Vaccine makers racing to update COVID shots, just in case

It's too soon to know how vaccines will hold up against omicron.
Saskatchewan privatizing some surgeries to reduce growing backlog from COVID-19

Health Minister Paul Merriman says the goal is to eliminate the backlog by achieving a three-month wait time by 2030.
UBC study finds pharmacists dispensing the abortion pill to be safe, effective

A large study led by UBC researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that offering mifepristone (aka the abortion pill) without prescribing restrictions is working in Canada.