by CMAJ News | Jun 21, 2019 | archive, recaps, Roger Collier
Roger Collier | CMAJ | June 21, 2019 Seniors comprised 16% of Canada’s population in 2015–16 but received nearly a third of health services provided by doctors, stated a report by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada based on 216 million medical...
by CMAJ News | Jun 20, 2019 | archive, homepage, Sarah Brown
Compassion and efficiency not mutually exclusive in health care Sarah Brown | Ottawa | June 20, 2019 Delivering health care with compassion doesn’t take any more time or effort. Dr. Stephen Trzeciak insists that his conversion to “compassionomics” has transformed his...
by CMAJ News | Jun 19, 2019 | archive, Carolyn Brown, featured
Stress of first postgraduate year leaves mark at cellular level for medical trainees Carolyn Brown | Ottawa | June 19, 2019 The stress and long hours of first-year medical residency may be affecting trainees’ biology. Dr. Michael Arget remembers the clinical training...
by CMAJ News | Jun 18, 2019 | Alison Motluk, archive, homepage
Poorly managed childhood pain can have lifelong consequences Alison Motluk | Toronto | June 18, 2019 A campaign to better manage pain in children was recently launched in Canada. Does it matter if an infant feels the pinch of an injection? Or if a preemie feels the...
by CMAJ News | Jun 14, 2019 | archive, Lauren Vogel, recaps
Lauren Vogel | CMAJ | June 14, 2019 Canada should have a universal, single-payer, public pharmacare program, according to the final report of a federal advisory panel. The report recommended the creation of a national drug agency to oversee universal coverage of a...
by CMAJ News | Jun 13, 2019 | archive, homepage, Tim Lougheed
How American EMRs came to dominate Canadian health care Tim Lougheed | Bath, Ontario | June 13, 2019 A handful of American EMR vendors control 90% of the Canadian market. Doctors and hospital administrators in Nova Scotia are still scratching their heads over how the...
