"I felt not like a physician but more like an interpreter – not of language, but of the space between two worlds." ...
When care is fragmented, patients become the glue holding the system together. But all too often, something important is ...
Delays in bail hearings and a lack of specialized care options not only weaken public confidence in the administration of ...
One medical resident's exchange in Berlin taught her not only about German culture, but how language and other support ...
To improve Indigenous women’s health, there must be a drastic change to the health-care system and how we view health.
Addressing economic and digital safety is no longer optional for health policy. It is a core component of patient wellbeing.
The widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) has been an ongoing challenge for the past 30 years. Though recent upgrades to EMR platforms, such as Epic and Cerner PowerChart, have ...
In Leadership Lessons from a Pot of Flowers, I wrote that the deepest strength of health care lives in its unseen roots; trust, connection, belonging. Nowhere is that truer, or more fragile, than in ...
Across the street from Toronto’s Scotiabank Theatre is an aptly named bar, Blessing in Disguise. Its neon sign was what I first noticed stepping out of a Toronto International Film Festival screening, ...
The message is conveyed to millions of young women who grow up in Canada: period pain is normal; pelvic pain is normal; pushing through discomfort is normal. By the time they finally see a doctor, ...
When the next pandemic arrives (and it will!) Canada will once again face urgent questions: Which treatments work? For whom? At what dose? And how quickly should we act? During the COVID pandemic, we ...