by CMAJ News | Jan 29, 2021 | Archive, Diana Duong, Latest
Time for better masks? Diana Duong | CMAJ | January 29, 2021 Canada and the United States have lagged on securing supplies of high-quality masks for their populations while other countries are distributing and mandating them widely. For months now, most Canadians have...
by CMAJ News | Jan 29, 2021 | Archive, Diana Duong, Latest
Reconciliation in health care must go beyond cultural sensitivity Diana Duong | CMAJ | January 29, 2021 Sharing power and resources, and making space for cultural practices and arts, are crucial for healing, say experts. Five years after the Truth and Reconciliation...
by CMAJ News | Jan 21, 2021 | Archive, Diana Duong, Latest
Frozen grief at the frontlines of the pandemic Diana Duong | CMAJ | January 21, 2021 Pandemic precautions are disrupting the ways doctors and nurses cope with the deaths of patients. If there was a mood that defined 2020, it was a collective sense of grief. Everyone...
by CMAJ News | Jan 13, 2021 | Archive, Diana Duong, Latest
Quebec doctor’s death highlights pandemic toll on health workers Diana Duong | CMAJ | January 13, 2021 Medical leaders are raising concern about increasing pressures on healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic following the suicide of Dr. Karine Dion, a...
by CMAJ News | Jan 8, 2021 | Archive, Catherine Varner, Latest
Women experts underrepresented in pandemic coverage Dr. Catherine Varner | Toronto, Ont. | January 8, 2021 Two-thirds of the sources interviewed by major Canadian news outlets since the beginning of the pandemic were men. While many Canadian health leaders are women,...