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President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD April 2021
... issues. So, what have I found? I am often one of the first people that an LGBTQ2S+ person comes out to. I am far too ... person who learns that a teenager has been date-raped. People break down and tell me about old traumas. People tell me their stories of the racism, sexism, ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD December 2021
... of burnout in the medical community. It is hard to see the people I care about suffer and toil as you have. And yet, the ... putting others first: “Give our vaccine doses to people more vulnerable, we’ll wait our turn.” I remember ... leaders in our own right, and we are entrusted with people’s very lives. Take heart that even when we are ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2021
... harm-reduction services has significant implications for people who use drugs (PWUD). One of the cornerstones of ... analysis revealed lower rates of THN kit possession among people who use drugs by non-injection routes.[ 22 ] However, ... consumption sites and overdose prevention sites, people with lived experience are acting as first responders, ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD May 2021
... collective trauma (a traumatic event shared by a group of people) being used to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. I often ... But trauma carries different meanings for different people. For some, trauma means broken bones and ruptured ... necessarily true of the pandemic. That’s not to say people haven’t suffered; we have seen far too many deaths; ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD December 2020
... assembled to cope with the anticipated surge of ill people. Surgeries were canceled. Offices were closed. We ... my optimism. I know that this virus, no matter how many people it impacts, no matter what new obstacles it presents, ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP March 2020
... Krever inquiry into the blood system after thousands of people received infected blood products in the 1980s.[ 1 , 2 ... makeup of Canada’s population. Potential donors (healthy people between 17 and 35 years of age) can register online by ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2020
... Truly inspiring work has been done by an untold number of people to pull this all together. Now we wait. Physical ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Jacob L. Stubbs, BKin May 2019
... fire and ambulance is that more often than not we know the people’s names, we’ve cared for them day in and day out, ... you? An easy way to look at harm reduction is as meeting people where they’re at. For the person with sleep ... emergency rooms have barriers for some individuals. Many people in this neighborhood cannot go through the triage ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2019
... generated by the necessary care of other patients. Most people are very understanding, some less so. The 90-year-old ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2019
... Shannon the day of her inauguration. Speaking of young people, what are the challenges that medical students and ... later. That route’s a lot more difficult now, and people decide what they want to do early on, by the end of ... tone for the family practice being patient-centred, where people come, they feel welcome, they feel like their needs ...