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Brainstorming ways to bring wound care directly to those in need
By Grace Jenkins An event to dream up innovative approaches to wound care has prompted an idea to bring a pop-up wound clinic to underserved people, right in their communities. Skunkworks: Hacking Wounds recently gathered diverse minds in Vancouver ... [Continue Reading]
New study finds general pediatricians can accurately diagnose autism in children
Study findings hold promise in building more system capacity to reduce long wait times for autism assessments General pediatricians can accurately diagnose autism in some children, especially if they feel confident in the diagnosis, which can reduce ... [Continue Reading]
Your Next Hospital Bed Might Be at Home
In a time of strained capacity, the “hospital at home” movement is figuring out how to create an inpatient level of care anywhere. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
The status quo won’t clear the surgical backlog. We must be willing to experiment.
By Dr. Kevin Smith While there is never a shortage of opinions when it comes to the cherished Canadian healthcare system, it is a nearly universally accepted belief that the status quo simply isn’t working — for patients, providers, ... [Continue Reading]
Could Alzheimer’s actually be an autoimmune condition?
New theory details how Alzheimer’s could be a chronic autoimmune condition that attacks the brain. By 2030, nearly a million Canadians will be living with dementia. The vast majority will be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of ... [Continue Reading]
How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients
A Times investigation revealed that many of these institutions are abandoning patients and straying from their charitable missions. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Diagnosing, assessing and treating long COVID
About 1.4 million people in Canada have been affected by long COVID after infection, or suspected infection, with SARS-CoV-2. A new trio of practice articles in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) aims to help clinicians diagnose, assess and ... [Continue Reading]
Emailing Your Doctor May Carry a Fee
More hospitals and medical practices have begun charging for doctors’ responses to patient queries, depending on the level of medical advice. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
A Deadly Epidural, Delivered by a Doctor With a History of Mistakes
Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Inside the Hospital Where Damar Hamlin’s Life Was Saved
The trauma care of the Buffalo Bills player highlighted what is done to overcome cardiac arrest, a leading cause of death in the United States. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Wife Fatally Shot Terminally Ill Husband in Florida Hospital, Police Say
Ellen Gilland, 76, had made a pact with her 77-year-old husband and had planned to also fatally shoot herself, but, in the end, “she couldn’t go through with it,” the police said. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Nurses Are Burned Out and Fed Up, With Good Reason
A recent strike in New York is just the latest sign of a growing crisis in American health care. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
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SPARK: Program to access research knowledge for Black and Indigenous medical students
By Kaitlin Jingco Dr. Mireille Norris knows firsthand about the unique disadvantages Black and Indigenous students experience while pursuing careers in medicine. “I struggled as a Black woman who navigated the medical system,” she says, citing ... [Continue Reading]
On These Small Islands, Medical Care Arrives One Ship at a Time
Much of rural South Korea has seen its population rapidly decline and age. For some communities off the coast, doctors traveling by boat have become a lifeline for the old and sick. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
COPD patients 61% more likely to die in the year after major surgery
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who undergo major surgery are more likely to die in the year after surgery and incur higher health care costs than similar patients without COPD, found a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian ... [Continue Reading]
A Better Covid Winter
Covid hospitalizations have not surged so far this season. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Joining efforts to train and hire nurses from around the world
By Danielle Pereira Sheila Leano-Cunanan says nursing is in her blood. “Through my mom, I saw nursing as being a hard job, dealing with so many different people and circumstances, and also rewarding to help those who are in need and to serve ... [Continue Reading]
A framework to measure virtual care’s value
By Dr. Vimal Mishra The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to reimagine, reorder, and restructure every sector of society. In almost all instances, technology has been at the heart of our adaptations. Nowhere has this transformation been more pronounced ... [Continue Reading]
‘Chaotic’ Scenes Inside 2 New York City Hospitals During Nurses’ Strike
Nurses have remained on the picket lines this week at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center, which have been less full but still tumultuous as they operate with skeletal staffs. SOURCE: NYT > Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
The quintessential game changer
How Dr. Geoff Fernie helped turn a small rehabilitation institute into a world-leading research centre By Glynis Racliffe In 2003, Dr. Geoff Fernie had what he admits was a wild idea: convert a smallish hole, destined to be a parking garage, ... [Continue Reading]