Healthy Debate1d
We must tackle misinformation. Our youth’s health depends on it
It is time to treat misinformation as the public health crisis it truly is, particularly among youth in marginalized Black, ...
Healthy Debate1d
Links between the chemical industry and governments pose a threat to Canadian health
More than 40 years ago, in the early 1980s, I co-led a major report on Our Chemical Society for the City of Toronto’s ...
Healthy Debate2d
Beating the administrative burden: How digital health tools can save family medicine
As primary care physicians, our goal is simple: provide the best care possible to our patients, who are at the heart of our ...
Healthy Debate3d
Cutting for comfort: Understanding the role of palliative surgery
In modern medicine, the term “surgery” conjures images of curative interventions. A paradigm shift, however, is emerging with ...
Healthy Debate8d
Patients, not politicians, decide what is an emergency
Ontario Premier Doug Ford made reckless statements on Oct. 25 that we as emergency physicians must correct. It is patients who decide what is a medical emergency. This ensures those with ...
Healthy Debate7d
Move fast and fix things: Canada can’t afford pharmacare delays
Julia, a patient in the emergency department, was having trouble breathing. The oxygen in her blood was low; her lungs weren’t moving air. A simple inhaler could have prevented this crisis, but she ...