A total of 5,063 public elementary students were suspended in Toronto this school year after getting caught in what one doctor called, a “1970s-style, cumbersome process” over immunization records. The number of students suspended amounted to 7 per cent of the 73,262 elementary students in 586 Toronto public elementary schoolsRead More →
Imagine not having access to a doctor, and the only way you can receive care is if you travel hundreds of kilometres. A Saskatchewan program is harnessing the power of medical robotics to bring care to remote communities. There is a robot revolution in health care. Everything from surgery, toRead More →
Diagnosing with “The Stethoscope of the 21st Century” A new kind of doctor has entered the exam room, but doesn’t have a name. In fact, these doctors don’t even have faces. Artificial intelligence has made its way into hospitals around the world. Those wary of a robot takeover have nothingRead More →
“Each year, a growing number of students do not get matched, putting the hundreds of thousands of dollars that provincial governments invest in educating and training future doctors at risk.” After he was passed over twice for a medical residency program, after he quizzed university officials and career counsellors aboutRead More →
“For example, wouldn’t it make sense that anytime a patient has lab tests completed anywhere in the province that the results of these tests would be immediately sent to the records in each of their doctors’ offices?” Minister Eric Hoskins’ Bill 41 continues to be confounding for many physicians, butRead More →