Health Care

Government health line referring patients to virtual-only doctors

Violin26/01/2023 54 Views

When the Ontario government reduced the fees paid to doctors for virtual-only appointments in December, it was said the reason was to encourage family physicians to see patients in person as well as online.

It’s a model of comprehensive care that many experts say is preferable to virtual-only.

But the government’s own help line staffed by registered nurses — Health Connect Ontario — is referring to patients they believe should see a doctor to those same virtual services.

“Health Connect Ontario’s practice is to refer to OHIP-funded virtual care services where appropriate,” said the Ministry of Health in an email.

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Quebec health minister apologizes for end-of-life care for Robert Bourassa’s widow at St. Mary’s Hospital

Violin25/01/2023 90 Views

The regional health board that oversees St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal says it will conduct an internal investigation into the end-of-life care the widow of a former Quebec premier received there, after her family said she suffered needlessly in her final days.

The family’s description of Andrée Simard’s treatment prompted Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé to offer them his apologies “in my name and that of the network,” while the minister responsible for end-of-life care, Sonia Bélanger, said the responsible health board must “review practices at St. Mary’s Hospital so that a situation like this one never happens again.”

Simard,

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Poor health care experiences lead caregivers to self-medicate, study shows

Violin25/01/2023 46 Views

Caregivers need care, too. And now, researchers from Japan have found that their experience with health care professionals while caring for someone else affects their own health care choices.

In a study published recently in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacyresearchers from the University of Tsukuba found that caregivers are more likely to take personal care into their own hands, by self-medicating, especially when their interactions with professionals are less positive.

The research team examined family caregivers’ self-medication habits and statistically paired them with the results of a questionnaire on their experiences with interprofessional health care.

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As Ontario looks to private health care, BC reinvests in its public system

Violin24/01/2023 58 Views

A bed is moved in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at St. Paul’s hospital in downtown Vancouver, on April 21, 2020.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press

One of the provinces inspired Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s decision to expand the use of private clinics to tackle surgical backlogs is bolstering its public health care system at the expense of private operators accused of underusing operating rooms.

The British Columbia government is moving in a different direction from Ontario, saying it is focusing on addressing its waiting list through the public health care system as it – along with other provinces – grapples

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How Ontario health minister Sylvia Jones spent her 1st month in office

Violin23/01/2023 53 Views

Across Ontario, as Sylvia Jones was being sworn in as minister of health, the province was marked with emergency room closures and scaled-back operations as a staffing crisis took hold of the health-care system.

The Perth and Smith District Falls Hospital was forced to close its ER for almost a month as a result of low staffing. Glengarry Memorial in Alexandria, Ont., had to shut its doors to emergency patients every night in the latter half of July for similar reasons.

The closures drew the ire of advocacy groups who begged the province for answers, with some saying the health

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Rep. Katherine Clark’s daughter is charged in police assault

Violin23/01/2023 79 Views

BOSTON (AP) — The daughter of US Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts was arrested during a protest Saturday night on Boston Common and later charged with assault after a police officer was injured.

In a statement on its website, the Boston Police Department said the 23-year-old was expected to be drafted in Boston Municipal Court.

Clark, the House Democratic whip, said in a tweet that her daughter, Riley Dowell, had been arrested. “I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting,” wrote Clark. “This will be evaluated by the legal

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Marked improvements to health care coming within a year, Houston says

Violin22/01/2023 105 Views

Premier Tim Houston says the deaths of two women who waited hours for help in rural emergency rooms weighed heavily on him as the person responsible for health care in Nova Scotia.

This week, his government announced a number of changes to the health-care system, which have met with mixed reactions from providers.

“The tragedies that were in the news, they’re the depths of sadness,” Houston told CBC Radio’s Mainstreet on Thursday. “I mean, I feel that very personally”

Houston spoke with host Jeff Douglas about the progress his government has made on his campaign promise to fix health care.

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A Perceived Philosophical Conflict – PHE America

Violin21/01/2023 58 Views

I am the only female in my high school PE department. It’s been this way for 20 years. The one time another female came in she tried to out-alpha the football coach and got removed from teaching PE and placed in Health. I think she might have taught one section of PE in the two years she was here, and I think it was Adapted PE. Since we’ve had a fully working weight room, it was always paired with the football coach. We got a new one this year, the fifth in my tenure working at this same high school.

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