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Back Page / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD December 2021
... today, Canada’s MAID law is under revision to include people with mental illness in the future. That will be an ...
Premise / BY: Christopher O.Y. Li, BSc May 2021
... fatal and independent shootings of two young Indigenous people, Rodney Levi and Chantel Moore, by police in New ... determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.” Although these ... nutritionally fortified foods in the diets of Indigenous people after widespread hunger and malnutrition in Canadian ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM January/February 2021
... parts of heroin, sugar, and other substances. He has seen people make fentanyl twice by mixing carfentanil with other ... Another downside was dealing with overdoses: “Some people can’t take it because you are killing people. What you’re selling can kill someone.” ...
Letters / BY: Michelle Danda July/August 2021
... of Drug Users (VANDU) and the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD) are instrumental in changing stereotypes of PWUD and engaging people with lived experience in the process of research and ... power imbalance. We must question the ethics of asking people who are accessing health care services for more ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2021
... ] notes the steady decline in the proportion of people over 65 being started on opioids and the harm that ...
Letters / BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM July/August 2021
... Some of the information may have not been new to people who work extensively in the field of addictions. ... Further, there are many examples of the experience of people who use drugs in the medical literature but very few examples of people who sell drugs. The goal of the article was to ...
Letters / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS January/February 2021
... 3 ] with depression and anxiety rates similar to those in people with cancer; and feelings of regret, sadness, and ...
Back Page / BY: Ed Martin, BA May 2020
... with bright, enthusiastic, and, yes, nervous young people does give one hope. They show a strong desire to help ... patient (SP) program. Making up an eclectic group of people of all ages and backgrounds but populated with a large ... greatest satisfaction is being part of a team of dedicated people working to help train the physicians of tomorrow. ...
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC March 2020
... dozens of patents to his name, but with enough publicity people like him can easily become gurus, which is not good. I ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2020
... that this article will have unintended consequences for people who should be receiving opioid-based therapy.  ... in the article do not apply to a significant number of people. The figure in the article is titled only “acute and ... family doctor. Pain is prevalent in 30% to 50% of people who receive cancer-directed treatments and over 70% of ...