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Patients with incurable cancer want to be informed about their disease and its treatment, but must also maintain hope. This inner conflict can affect how they process information about their prognosis.
Governments can do more to protect patients at for-profit nursing homes. A behavioral scientist who studies nursing homes weighs in.
Before AI becomes widespread in health care, we need to ask what matters to consumers.
It’s all too common for health professionals and departments to slip into silo mentalities.
The shortage of family doctors affects not only patients, but the entire health-care system. A strong primary care foundation increases average lifespan, improves overall health and reduces costs.
Each encounter that health-care students have with patients and families helps them understand real-world patient needs. That means all Canadians have a role in educating future health-care providers.
The law requires medical test results be made available to patients even before a clinician has reviewed them.
Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.
Three factors that can speed up adoption of clinical research discoveries are context, tailoring resources and efficient knowledge sharing.
People with long COVID report that their symptoms are dismissed or not treated seriously by health-care providers. This medical gaslighting not only prevents treatment but can cause stigma and shame.
Ambulance response times have not always met targets, but the alarming new pinch point in our health-care system is that there are no ambulances at all available to respond to calls.
Although chronic pain is recognized by scientists as a disease in its own right, it remains largely under-recognized, under-diagnosed and, above all, associated with numerous prejudices.
At the dawn of Medicare, Saskatchewan’s community co-op clinics pioneered team-based, holistic care. Now, with the health system in crisis 60 years later, it may be time to return to that care model.
Younger cancer patients have unique challenges, and resources often target older patients. Social media brings younger cancer patients together to share information, emotional support and hope.
Person-centred care sees the patient as a whole, unique individual and puts them at the centre of their health decisions.
Health researchers hope a new regulation requiring hospitals to post their prices will tame soaring health care costs, but compliance and standardization are hurdles.
Canadian government travel restrictions are an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19 variants. But vague language around exemptions for medical travel may confuse the physicians who can grant them.
The legal uncertainty surrounding telemedicine services is not without consequences. Patients may not have access to public protection remedies.
Widely adopted in the US when pandemic precautions kept people home, telehealth faces a challenge as insurance coverage changes, right when its popularity had surged.
Top contributors
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Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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CEO, Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Associate, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics Deputy Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Learning Healthcare, Duke University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher in health and social care, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Fellow
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Professor, University of Technology Sydney
