Kendall Ho, MD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia. DR KENDALL HO: What if one day a patient asks you for therapy based on Indigenous traditional... Read More

Dr Kathleen Ross “I shall not today attempt further to define [it]. . . but I know it when I see it.”      —Justice Potter Stewart While this quote applies to something... Read More

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” begins Charles Dickens in his famous novel, A Tale of Two Cities, first published in 1859. I would like to think that human nature has... Read More

24 March 2020 Medical practice is challenging, never more than during a pandemic. In such times we turn to Sir William Osler for wisdom and perspective. In 1896, Osler observed that “Humanity... Read More

The health burden of gout continues to rise in Canada.[1] Allopurinol, a common urate-lowering medication used to treat gout, is associated with severe adverse cutaneous drug reactions (SCARs) in... Read More