Health

Is Canada getting its money’s worth out of its publicly funded health-care insurance system? This is the question that surfaced out of a recent analysis by the Fraser Institute which concluded that a typical family […]

The pandemic has caused a significant impact not just on our medical, diagnostic and surgical needs, but also on the preventive components of our medical care such as immunizations, annual health assessments and screening measures […]

Following my university and post-graduate training in family medicine in the mid 60s, I finally achieved my goal of becoming a family physician and establishing my practice in a small community where a general practitioner […]

Among the many restrictions in our daily lives resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, there may be significant limitations in our access to medical services to which we have become accustomed. For persons without any acute […]

Within the last several weeks, I have had two friends telling me about the pain they were experiencing with one of their shoulders. One of the few injuries from which I have suffered (from playing […]

It has been only in very recent years that health researchers, public health agencies and governments have paid much attention to the potential risks of radon emission. We are all aware of the precautions which […]

Canada’s exposure to the COVID pandemic was modest compared to that felt by most other developed nations, but its impact revealed a health-care system already overburdened and unprepared for a repeat event any time soon. […]

A young woman attended the emergency department with chest pains several weeks after being prescribed a birth control pill. Her X-ray was mistakenly read by the emergency room physician as negative. She was diagnosed with […]

When I started my family practice in the mid-sixties, the availability of technology to assist in diagnosing and treating many conditions was very limited. Imaging was restricted to X-ray machines and ultrasound was just beginning […]