Category: Medical Dispatches

Sep 05 2018

So you want to build a health app, eh?

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Katherine Atkinson is a PhD student at the Karolinska Institutet in the Department of Public Health Science. Cameron Bell has a B. Eng from McGill and is the lead technical...

May 04 2018

Medical Dispatches

Dentists take a bite out of unnecessary prescribing, procedures and testing

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Dr. Susan Sutherland is Chief of Dentistry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and President of the Canadian Association of Hospital Dentists Dentists in community practices usually work in...

Mar 23 2018

Doctors' health, Medical Dispatches

Resiliency: foundational skills for a long and productive career in medicine

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This article is co-authored** by (top row) Christina M. Nowik , Pamela Lai, Thomas McLaughlin, Simon Moore, (bottom row) Gillian Shiau, Natasha Snelgrove, Nureen Sumar, and Jasmin Yee, all of...

Mar 06 2018

Medical Dispatches

The Supply-Demand Mismatch: “What do you mean unemployed specialists?”

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Reza Mirza is a second year Internal Medicine resident at McMaster University Justin Hall is a third year Emergency Medicine Resident at the University of Toronto. Odion Kalaci is a...

Feb 20 2018

Medical Dispatches

Laundry Detergent Pod Toxicity

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Tanishq Suryavanshi is a medical student at McMaster University Blair Bigham is an emergency medicine resident at McMaster University and a freelance journalist Bandar Baw is an assistant professor,...

Dec 12 2017

Medical Dispatches

White Coat Warm heArt: unleash your inner artist

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Dr. Carol Ann Courneya is an Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the University of British Columbia For the past eight years, the Canadian Conference in Medical Education (CCME) has...

Nov 10 2017

Medical Dispatches

Getting on top of antimicrobial resistance: how to make a business case for an inpatient antimicrobial stewardship program

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Nicole Le Saux is Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Ottawa * As physicians we should be concerned about the inappropriate use of antibiotics....

Nov 05 2017

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care

Giving place a chance: celebrating rural family medicine in Marathon

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Barbara Zelek is Associate Professor and Co-Chair for the Section of Family Medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine Marathon, a rural community on the North shore of...

Mar 02 2017

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care

Driving versus thriving: a novel approach to public health screening advocacy

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Did you hear about Chris’s mint condition 1963 Shelby Cobra? Mechanics say he didn’t check the oil for decades, and the engine just seized one day on the way to...

Oct 25 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Making human genetics great again by being strongly together

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Stuart Nicholls is a Clinical Investigator and Methodologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Methodologist at the Ontario Child Health Support Unit (OCHSU). He recently attended...

Oct 11 2016

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care, Reflections

Let’s not be our own worst enemies

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Bonnie Larson is Family Physician at Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS) Health Centre Recently I called the emergency department from my outreach clinic in an urban shelter. Near the...

Sep 21 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Treating children with ADHD: don’t underestimate the importance of adequate medication dosing

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Dr Rod Bergh is a general pediatrician who has practiced medicine since the early 1960s. I have practiced Pediatrics for most of the 59 years since I graduated from...

Sep 13 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Children’s Mental Health 1954-2016 – who cares?

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David Cawthorpe is a Professor (Adjunct) in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Alberta By the end of this month the 22nd International Association for Child...

Sep 13 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A treatment for loneliness

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Iris Gorfinkel is a General Practitioner and Founder & Principal Investigator of PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ontario I’d been attending this particular patient’s medical needs as her GP...