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Empowering choices: The importance of advance care planning
Advance care planning empowers individuals to have their health-care preferences honoured, offering peace of mind to both ...
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‘The first time students see a patient of colour should not be in hospital’: The need for diverse patient actors
Advocates across groups say increasing standardized patient diversity is crucial to prepare Ontario’s future doctors for ...
Healthy Debate1d
‘We do not need compassionate care: We need a country that cares with compassion’
We do not need compassionate care: We need a country that cares with compassion.
Healthy Debate6d
The reality of family medicine has changed. The health system must keep up
It’s time to break down the siloes in health care and focus on collaboration instead. No one wants to leave patients out in ...
Healthy Debate6d
Statement from the CMA, CNA, CFNU: Attacks, abuse of health workers must not be tolerated
The reprehensible assault of health workers in Halifax last week is a harsh reminder of the dangers health professionals across Canada face.
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Patient Perspectives: Is patient experience finally having its moment?
Editor’s note: Watch for Patient Perspectives, a column by Lisa Machado dealing with health care from the user’s point of view that will appear regularly in Healthy Debate. When biotech giant Roche ...
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Despite Trump’s threat, congestion pricing has proved its worth in Manhattan
As United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump threatens to unravel New York City’s (NYC) congestion pricing, let’s take a look at what the program has been able to do in just one month. After being ...
Healthy Debate8d
Misinformation on social media is winning – scientists must adapt or lose the battle
I am an anxious, nerdy, introverted, camera-shy PhD-prepared scientist who studies health-care delivery. Last week, I launched a social media channel across almost all platforms. I shocked myself. But ...
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The cost of lies: Misinformation is worsening mental health and eroding our social fabric
In an age in which information is a mouse click away, Canada finds itself under siege – not by armies or economic collapse, despite Donald Trump’s threats, but by the insidious spread of ...