One medical resident's exchange in Berlin taught her not only about German culture, but how language and other support ...

For my New Year’s resolution, I am reminded that our only true guarantee is the present moment. Amid busy schedules and ...

The health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians have long been shamefully apparent – the various studies finding infant mortality rates in Indigenous populations to be 1.7 to ...

Family medicine has been in the news lately, with accounts of a shortage across the country and medical graduates shunning the practice. There are many who think that family medicine is about simple ...

*Editor’s note: Provincial licensing of medical professionals, including doctors, may become a barrier to redistributing our work force during this pandemic. Rather than one large outbreak, COVID-19 ...

This interview is with a female who is a victim of financial abuse. Her name has been withheld to respect her safety and privacy. “My Dad has been mentally, emotionally, and financially abusive to my ...

A few weeks ago, on my way to see a patient in the hospital, I ran into a cardiologist who I like a lot. We have cared for a few patients together—people whose hearts had failed so severely that he ...

Our information ecosystem has become a massive false-balance machine. Fringe positions that have already been studied and shown to be wrong are legitimized, given a huge profile and presented as ...

The pandemic has brutally exposed vulnerabilities in long-term care (LTC) homes, but one solution is hiding in plain sight – nurse practitioners, or NPs. The majority of residents of today’s LTC homes ...

In May 2016, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an article with the headline: Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the U.S. The article ...

There aren’t enough family doctors to go around. So, how can we ensure that everyone in Canada has access to high-quality primary care when there is a growing shortage of family doctors? Part of the ...