One of the hospitals I used to work in is entirely dedicated to rehab, yet I did not qualify because of my neuropathy. However, three years after the surgery, a pediatric neurosurgeon friend informed me that 20% of patients are paralyzed from this surgery, and 20% of patients do not surv...
two represent Canada's Aboriginal people - one First Nations and one Inuit, and others are family caregivers, peer support workers and service providers at the community level, in hospitals and in private clinical practice.
"I think for all of these things there's an individual susceptibility that's based on someone's genetic makeup as well as any potential injury they've had in the past," said Dr. Alan Hoffer, assistant professor of neurological surgery and neurocritical care at University Hospitals Case M...
Colonial ideologies have left no room for Indigenous knowledge, healing, or medicines in the Western health care system [22,32]. Though, in the journey towards reconciliation, many Canadian hospitals are taking on Indigenous health programs and seeing positive outcomes [67,68,69]. Therefore, if ...