Moreover, doxycycline is teratogenic, and its use is contraindicated in pregnancy, said Goodridge. If a pregnant patient is being treated for syphilis, then penicillin is the treatment of choice. For pregnant patients with penicillin allergy, Public Health Agency of Canada guidelines call for penicil...
This was especially crucial for FPs who were limited to virtual practice due to their own clinical vulnerabilities: “I’m strictly virtual care and the docs I’m filling in for know that and provide back-up for me so that my patients still get seen if they need to be” [NL10W]. ...
But getting the dose right early will in the long run lead to more effective drugs, said Dr. Timothy Yap, a drug developer at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "If the patients are not taking the drug, then it's not going to work."...
When Freedhoff told his story on Twitter, other clinicians shared similar experiences and concerns about patients multitasking during virtual visits. Some patients were sympathetic, while others took issue with the thread. Dr. Jason Lee, an immunology and allergy specialist in Toronto, says it's up...
The delays took a physical and emotional toll on patients stuck in the backlog. “Our trainees, and patients, suffered greatly,” Ahmed said. “Initially, we were operating only on very sick patients. It made teaching and mentoring very difficult,” she said of the early days of the...
"he had been put on treatment and was taking it, but here it was four days later and he was worse," she says. in addition to his rash, he had a horrible headache and a fever of 103. headaches and fevers are more like flu symptoms. in the previous month, nayar had seen several ...
Ontario announced Wednesday that family doctors in six regions — Toronto, Peel Region, Hamilton, Guelph, Peterborough, and Simcoe-Muskoka — will start administering COVID vaccines to patients aged 60-64 this weekend. The rollout is expected to open up to more family doctors’ offices as supply...
Diane Van Keulen, a 60-year-old lung cancer patient from Beaverton, about an hour north of Toronto, knows the impact the pandemic can have on patients. At the beginning of August, after a recent bout of chemotherapy, she resisted going to the emergency room for three weeks out of fear...
Ontario announced Wednesday that family doctors in six regions — Toronto, Peel Region, Hamilton, Guelph, Peterborough, and Simcoe-Muskoka — will start administering COVID vaccines to patients aged 60-64 this weekend. The rollout is expected to open up to more family doctors’ offices as supp...
The medical school expansion is significant, but there is little to indicate that it might also be adequate to meet Ontario’s future physician needs. Numbers would suggest that it is not. If one were to assume that each new family doctor would handle 1,500 patients, it would take 1,200 ...