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Disconnected by design: How fragmented health data is failing Canadian patients

Patients living in Canadian rural and remote communities often move across multiple systems simply to access basic care. Bill ...
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The illusion of choice in Ontario’s long-term care system

We cannot build a humane health-care system by forcing families to choose between unaffordable charges and unsafe or ...
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Canada lost its measles-free status. Our children deserve better

Canada can regain its measles elimination status, but only after we interrupt transmission for a full year. That requires ...
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The healing reach of art: Creative insights from participants and practitioners

If we are serious about improving health outcomes, particularly for populations navigating systemic barriers, creative ...
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Young people aren’t avoiding conversations about sexual health – they’re avoiding judgment

Youth are already talking about sexual health online every day. The question is whether trusted institutions are willing to meet them there – not with judgment, but with honesty, empathy and respect.
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Children left waiting: The need to update emergency department triage

Long emergency wait times are now widely recognized as a structural problem. But children should not deteriorate unnoticed in ...
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From bombed refineries to empty fridges: A faraway war raises health concerns at home

Canada is thousands of kilometres away from the latest war in the Middle East, but significant public health impacts can be felt here at home, from rising fuel costs and worsening food insecurity to ...
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Rather than a ‘chilling effect’, Bill S-228 provides protection from forced sterilization

As an Obstetrician-Gynecologist, and as a member of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOCG), I have had the opportunity to see the development of a law on forced sterilization ...
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HCWs have died and been disabled. Laws should have prevented this

It was just going to be another routine day for a geriatric specialist. Dr. C (who prefers to remain anonymous) woke up, got her three children ready for school, kissed her wife on the way out the ...
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When digital tools reshape primary care: What happens to the 4Cs?

This article is the second in a series exploring what a literature review reveals about the digital burden in primary care, why it matters and how we can rethink the relationship between clinicians ...
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When technology becomes the work: Why primary care must confront the digital burden it created

This article is the first in a series exploring what the literature review reveals about the digital burden in primary care, why it matters and how we can rethink the relationship between clinicians ...
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Assisted dying is changing medicine more than we realize

A man diagnosed with metastatic cancer initially expressed interest in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Though the treating team determined he lacked capacity and was being sedated for pain ...