St. Paul’s Hospital’s Department of Radiology recently began offering screening CT scans of the chest or whole body to the public on a private paying basis, using the CT scanner in off hours. As a... Read More
Editorials
All of us are sensitive to the passing of time and can’t help but notice the time-induced savaging of our reflected features (usually long after everyone else has noticed). From the instant we are... Read More
I am probably an old fogey and given to ranting on occasion, but something has happened to the practice of medicine that makes me reluctant to admit that I am a doctor to those who do not already... Read More
The numbers associated with depression are staggering: 1.4 million people in Canada afflicted at any given time; over $3 billion in direct medical costs; 40 000 person-years lost from work and over $... Read More
I have always had a lingering, peri-marginal sense of how frequently our preconceptions of human nature based on physiognomy are wrong. These fairly fuzzy, poorly focused, not-quite-randomly... Read More