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Charity fills the gap in pet fostering services for struggling community members in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
For The Homies is a new grassroots organization offering much-needed pet fostering services for community members and their ...
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Empowering choices: The importance of advance care planning
Advance care planning empowers individuals to have their health-care preferences honoured, offering peace of mind to both ...
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‘We do not need compassionate care: We need a country that cares with compassion’
We do not need compassionate care: We need a country that cares with compassion.
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‘The first time students see a patient of colour should not be in hospital’: The need for diverse patient actors
The first patients Ontario’s medical students encounter are actors – standardized patients (SPs) trained to imitate the symptoms and signs of illness. Students practice how to diagnose and disclose ...
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Patient Perspectives: Is patient experience finally having its moment?
Editor’s note: Watch for Patient Perspectives, a column by Lisa Machado dealing with health care from the user’s point of view that will appear regularly in Healthy Debate. When biotech giant Roche ...
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Statement from the CMA, CNA, CFNU: Attacks, abuse of health workers must not be tolerated
The reprehensible assault of health workers in Halifax last week is a harsh reminder of the dangers health professionals across Canada face.
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The reality of family medicine has changed. The health system must keep up
In Walkerton, Ont., a new family medicine practice accepting patients drew a line of hundreds of people, some waiting in the cold as early as 2 a.m. One person described securing a family doctor as ...
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Misinformation on social media is winning – scientists must adapt or lose the battle
Scientists and health professionals must rethink how we communicate or risk further marginalization in the public discourse.