Search

Back Page / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD September 2023
... her unfolding dementia. I could no longer leave her at home alone. I took her shopping with me, watching that she ... still haunt me. Her experiences were inhumane. Back Page Dementia and assistance in dying: A catch-22 ...
Back Page / BY: Tej K. Khalsa, MD, MSc, FRCPC January/February 2023
... medicine practice at the Mayo Clinic,[ 11 ] and now in my home province of BC, I continue to tell my patients that we ... tomorrow, for every human being, depends on it. Back Page Hope for change ...
Back Page / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD December 2021
... she would swallow. We cared for my very much loved wife at home until recently, when she was moved to a long-term care ... function need to be given special consideration. Back Page The informed consent paradox ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Mandy Ruthnum, MD, FCFP January/February 2021
13 November 2020 Did you know that you may have to stay home for 24 days if one of your children tests positive for ... later to get the result. In the meantime, we would stay at home so as not to potentially expose anybody else. At home, ... the numbers that apply to all citizens across Canada. Back Page COVID-19 The first swab ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Abe Zacharias, MD, FRCPC July/August 2020
... with the hospital routine. I looked forward to going home to Winkler on the weekend. Just as I arrived home, our family doctor called, wanting to see me. His first ... assistance with the preparation of this article. Back Page COVID-19 Quarantine, tuberculosis, and the curtailment ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Kristina Jenei, BSN September 2020
... in regulating our global climate. These environments are home to animals and insects that carry known human pathogens ... like predators.” Competing interests None declared. Back Page COVID-19 On reading Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone ...
Back Page / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2015
... with his comrades in the Fox and Hounds, he brought them home to supper, beer bubbles clinging to his magnificent ... the froth that once adorned it at the Fox and Hounds. Back Page The magnificent moustache ...
Back Page / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, October 2014
... a minor procedure like pushing a trochar trembling home or wrestling with a drip. I asked him how he maintained ... tolerate themselves enough to want to live and give. Back Page The enemy within ...
Back Page / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2014
... avoid the London Blitz, which had already shattered their home, fortunately without casualties. They knew this was the ... boy was affected. Those affected were forbidden to travel home by train when the term ended, lest they infect the ... minor, would have affected his life and career. Back Page Lest we forget ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD December 2013
... me. We didn’t let her down; she died as she wished, at home. I lightened my load by finding one “not dead yet ... and chatting to aerial spirits in a comfortable nursing home.  Then back to melancholy. Removing their names and ... are extinguished in microseconds?  Will we?  Back Page Bring out your dead ...