Alexandra Rego

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Alexandra Rego is a Peer Researcher at the University of Toronto Scarborough, disabled woman and educator with a background in child development and educational assistance.

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by Franklin Sheps

Ontario has a new way of measuring how hard family doctors work. What does it mean for doctors and their patients?

The new “Continuity of Care” measure included in the new agreement between the Ontario government and its doctors has good intentions but comes with severe penalties and without necessary checks and balances.
by Jane Caulfield

Knit one, purl two on the way to mental health

Addressing rising mental health rates will undoubtedly require a range of different tools, both pharmacological and non-pharmaceutical.
by Jackie Tsang Susan Dong

Tylenol misinformation puts pregnant patients at risk

Casting doubt on Tylenol without solid evidence does not empower pregnant people, it corners them. It adds guilt, stigma and undermines their confidence in making safe decisions for themselves and their babies.
by Ivy Oandasan

The training gap undermining Canada’s primary care teams

While family medicine is exploring how to prepare doctors for team-based primary care, other health professions lack equivalent training requirements.
by Alex Hoagland

Empowering pharmacists is about more than saving emergency departments – it’s about equity in health care

Not only did Ontario's move to allow pharmacists to prescribe for certain minor ailments reduce ED strain, but it also reduced inequities in access to care.

by Pat Kelly

Beyond pink and teal: Patient advocacy is not a morality play

Patient advocacy at its best is not about purity. It’s about presence. It’s about showing up, with all our raw, unpolished language and stories, to demand dignity for people whose lives are already heavy with suffering.
by Marvin Ross

Was my wife’s hospital care an anomaly or the new normal in Ontario?

I had hoped my wife would get timely and dignified care like I'd received in the past. She did not. Was her care an anomaly or is it the way of the future? I don't know but I sure as hell hope it is not the future.
by Trevor Hancock Tim Takaro

Planetary health is public health

Ignoring planetary health would be a gross dereliction of duty by the public health profession, a breach of the ethical obligation to protect and improve the health of the population and to narrow health inequalities.
by Geoffrey M. Pradella

Expanding access to disability supports: the case for impact investing

Thanks to limited access to interventions and income thresholds that fail to account for the cost of caregiving, families with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities are often left to pay out-of-pocket for services.
by Nicole Smith Neha Shah

We are taught to fix the system – then forced to waste time in it

Every year, medical students across the country must resubmit the same forms verifying their vaccine history. Redundant paperwork like this is a symptom of a system which bureaucracy overrides basic logic.

by Linxi Mytkolli

Trust those who heal, not those who provoke

A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.
by Divya Santhanam

‘I understand’: Words of empathy that have helped me through residency

"That evening, they walked me past the point we usually diverged and sat with me in my apartment lobby. They sat as I cried. They listened."
by Abigail Jaimes Zelaya

Black mistrust is logical and rational: What public health policymakers must learn from Black communities

Black communities are not hesitant just for the sake of it. They are hesitant because of memory. They need structural change built from trust, not just crisis.
by Muhammad Saim

Food security is health security: Tackling Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous communities

First Nations on reserve have Type 2 diabetes rates three to five times higher than the rest of Canada. Yet, they remain underserved and underrepresented in health policy and decision-making.
by Anjalee I. Wanasinghe Muhammad Ilyas Nadeem Sylvia Santosa

Obesity and food insecurity in Canada: Two sides of the same coin

Addressing food insecurity and obesity together requires a multi-layered, long-term strategy.
by Marfy Ezekiel Abousifein Nicholas Leyland

Financially sustainable and fair: Value-based care a solution to pay disparities and health-care system strain

The gender-based physician compensation gap is more than a workplace injustice – it undermines the efficiency and effectiveness of the Canadian health-care system.
by Daniyal Kashif Carl Leochico Meiqi Guo Matthew Burke Haseel Bhatt Jason Kreuzman Sarah Lidstone Sara Mitchell Sarah Levitt

The forgotten patients of brain health: Why Functional Neurological Disorder needs a clinical home

Patients with FND are not puzzles to be passed around. They are Ontarians living with genuine and debilitating symptoms; many of whom have been ignored, invalidated and left to navigate recovery alone.
by Tazim Virani Dana McAuley Lindsay Cox Janine Pierre

Housing the frontline: Solving the health workforce crisis starts with a place to live

To build the strong and sustainable health-care system we need, affordable housing must be treated as essential workforce infrastructure.
by Lisa Machado

Patient Perspectives: Telling our stories is critical to improving care

As a physician, nothing will tell you more than simply asking someone how their illness impacts their lives and listening closely to their answers.
by Michelle Cohen

How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys

Increasingly distorted male beauty standards have come to celebrate visible dehydration as a physical ideal, posing a significant physiological and psychological danger for men and boys.

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