NHS England’s reforms may not be perfect. But they reflect an important recognition: healthier societies are built not only through health-care systems but through stronger neighbourhood systems and focus on communities.
As health care is paying more attention to disability education in recent years, it’s important that when including disability voices, we ensure diversity of disabled voices as well.
Sport is a space that offers opportunities to experience great joy and excitement, as well sorrow and disappointment. More importantly, sport (at all levels) relies on coaches to support athletes throughout this emotional journey. But who supports the coaches?
"My psychiatry professor did not celebrate her patient’s drinking. She recognized it for what it was: a coping mechanism that kept her patient alive long enough to seek help. Supervised consumption sites are similar in that sense. They are not the end of the story."
Mental Health First Aid training could strengthen pharmacists' ability to assist patients in distress and could serve as a vital first touch point for patient care.
The narrative around aging has been focused almost entirely on “decline management." But a compelling shift is happening as we recognize that the later chapters of life are not just about preservation, but about creative expansion.
Hair loss is routinely classified in medicine as cosmetic – a matter of appearance rather than medical consequence. But that description is not neutral. It determines how seriously a condition is taken, how much funding it receives and how urgently effective treatments are pursued.
As physicians, we go to work each day with the intent to provide patient care and help others. Frankly, some days are better than others. But we don’t expect to get injured at work and urgently become patient ourselves.
Spring and summer moves between daylight and standard time represents a compromise. It’s about health across the months, not just in the immediate moment of the change.
When the Middle East burns, Canadians feel the heat in our gas tanks, grocery bills, clinic waitlists and therapy rooms. Global crises may not stay global; they can become local.
It’s happening again. Not a global pandemic but the minimizing of airborne precautions for an event with human-to-human transmission of a deadly respiratory virus possibly spread by airborne transmission.
Clinicians and patients are not simply users to be consulted. They are indispensable partners – co-architects of a digital transformation that serves care, not the other way around.
When it comes to diagnostic test results, patient access to information has expanded rapidly. Responsibility for interpreting and acting on that information has not expanded in the same way.
The convenience of turning to AI or health information is appealing. But it raises an important question: how reliable are these answers when the topic is our health?