Atul Gawande’s 2012 TED Talk about improving health care (How do we heal medicine?) proposes that medical staff should function like a pit crew in a car race, with each skilled crew member having a well-defined role and working quickly and collaboratively to enable the car to continue its journey.[1] This proposal is especially applicable to the 1 in 5 Canadians who develops a mental illness in their lifetime.[2]
The residential care initiative (RCI) of the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) aims to improve care for patients in facilities through five best practice recommendations,[1] one of which is the implementation of meaningful medication reviews.
From time to time you will see requests for medical inspectors or audit hearing panel members. You may wonder why anyone would want to be a medical inspector and audit their peers.
Components in cigarette smoke directly damage your muscles. New research, published in The Journal of Physiology, indicates that smoking decreases the number of small blood vessels that bring oxygen and nutrients to muscles in the legs.
