Breast-cancer screening: Balancing harm vs. risks - Healthy Debate
WEBNov 1, 2023 · Harms vs. benefits. The Task Force emphasized the importance of balancing benefits and harms while considering individuals’ values in making a decision to participate in screening. On the surface, this is a reasonable and laudable position. It is emphasized that a “shared decision” process be used. This term is in itself somewhat ...
Special Series - Healthy Debate
WEBMar 15, 2023 · Without Compassion, There Is No Health Care. In partnership with AMS Healthcare, Healthy Debate is publishing a series of seven articles that explores the relationship between technology and compassion in the field of health care today, and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Special Series. Jun 14, 2021.
We need to talk about public and private health care in Canada
WEBSep 17, 2023 · In the Angus Reid Institute survey, 31 per cent of respondents said that more private care would improve health care, while 44 per cent said it would worsen access to care. The percentage of respondents who are “unsure” increased in the past year. It’s a topic we can no longer ignore. This is a complex, nuanced conversation that Canadians ...
Keith Thompson - Healthy Debate
WEBApr 23, 2023 · Keith Thompson. Dr. Keith Thompson is a family physician, based in London, Ont., and an Adjunct Faculty Professor in both the departments of Family Medicine and Institute for Earth and Space Exploration at Western University. He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for Nuralogix. Rescuing health-care providers from burnout.
Over-the-counter ointments are ‘poison ivy in a tube’ for some ...
WEBDec 12, 2022 · Canada’s most popular over-the-counter ointments for wound treatment are like “poison ivy in a tube,” dermatologists warn, and are the most common medical substances causing allergic contact dermatitis (ACD).. ACD is a red, itchy rash that occurs when a substance repeatedly comes into contact with skin, leading to sensitization and causing an allergic response.
Building trust key to overcoming vaccine hesitancy among parents
WEBNov 9, 2021 · The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine has been approved for children aged 5-11 in the US. And while Health Canada is still reviewing it, for many parents here, it can’t come soon enough. Still, a recent Angus Reid poll found that while 50 per cent are ready to have their children vaccinated right away, another 23 per cent say they will not.
The key to living longer and better? Dying at home
WEBJan 4, 2023 · A 2017 study in Ontario showed that the likelihood of dying at home increased by 69 per cent for those living in the highest-income urban areas. The same study showed that home death was significantly decreased for those living in rural municipalities as well as those in lower-income urban settings. Historically, dying in hospital is a recent ...
‘We had to find our way in the dark’: Physician helps remote Sioux ...
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Just before Lloyd Douglas arrived in the northern Ontario municipality of Sioux Lookout, he was ready to quit medicine. Born and raised in Jamaica, Douglas knew he wanted to be a doctor when he read the book Gifted Hands; he realized public health was his passion while studying medicine at the University of West Indies.After moving his family to Canada, he could not get a residency training ...
A day in a life of a family physician - Healthy Debate
WEBAug 17, 2022 · This is a play-by-play of my family medicine clinic day on a random Tuesday this summer. I arrive at my medical practice at 6:15 a.m. There is a note that the patient washroom has been clogged from use during the walk-in clinic last night. We cannot have that with the patients coming in today – and plumbers are expensive.
We need to do more: Advocating for refugee health after arrival in ...
WEBJan 18, 2022 · The worldwide refugee crisis is bad; the pandemic is making it worse. Globally, about 82.4 million people in 2020 were forcibly displaced due to persecution, violence, climate change and human rights violations, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Global Trends of Forced Displacement Report.In Canada, widely considered a “world destination” for refugees ...
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