As well, only about 1 in 10 doctors in Ontario are accepting new patients. That’s a lot of people looking for a limited supply of family doctors, and most family practices are unable to accept new patients. A website called opencare provides a search engine to help you locate possible ...
Friends and family often challenge me with the question, “ Why can’t you doctors agree on something and stick to it without constantly changing your minds about what benefits or harms us ” Their complaint partially has a good reason. The reality is that our knowledge of medicine is constan...
Bethune contracted tuberculosis in both lungs and sought treatment at the famous Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York, USA. As his condition worsened, Bethune convinced his skeptical doctors to perform a potentially dangerous operation involving elective pulmonary resection. Its success and his...
Associations active in providing relief to the starving and the ill in Somalia during the late 1980s and 1990s were the International Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Crescent, the United Nations (U.N.) World Food Program, Save the Children Service, Cooperative for Assistance and Re...
The Bruyère Memory Program is the only academic medical clinic devoted exclusively to cognitive assessment of older adults in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a city of about 1 million inhabitants. Patients are referred from family physicians, as well as other specialists. They are assessed by a clinic ...
Thisrecent publicationin theCanadian Journal of Rural Medicinedemonstrates the success of Integrated Virtual Care (IVC), an innovative program aimed at increasing attachment to a family physician and comprehensive, team-based primary care in Renfrew County, which lies outside of Ottawa, Ontario. ...
with obesity completed the ProxOb program so far, and more than 90% of them also presented at least one parent with overweight or obesity. Being part of a single-parent family seemed to increase the chance of completing the intervention (63.0% vs. 33.3% in the drop-outers subgroup,p= ...
We were delighted that we could meet with doctors and specialists by phone and by video. Doctor’s appointments are always a big deal in coordination and in his and my emotional/physical wellness. They often trigger seizures. I am exhausted. Typically, a specialist visit is an eight-hour com...