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Renee Boldut details the alarming related risks of aging, social isolation and loneliness, health misinformation, and poor health. __________________________________________ Following the death of her husband Barbra’s world grew smaller, and her health grew increasingly frail. She suffered some falls, began to rely on a diet of tea and toast, and did not leave her house […]

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Lynette Reid introduces the work done at Dalhousie to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program. __________________________________________ Medical educators in Canada have been implementing an accreditation standard around social accountability as part of de-coupling our accreditation process from the United States (achieved this past summer). In addit...

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Janine Curtis ties the epidemic of burnout among health care providers in Newfoundland and Labrador to misinformation about the real causes of poor access to hospitals and clinicians. __________________________________________ In the summer of 2022, the CEO of the Central Regional Health Authority in Newfoundland and Labrador issued a press release in reaction to incidents of [&...

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Rhys Latus examines how the US has turned In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) into a moral battlefield and argues that Canada must defend IVF as a compassionate application of reproductive freedom. __________________________________________ Last year, the Alabama Supreme court ruled that frozen embryos should be regarded as “unborn children,” prompting fertility clinics across the stat...

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Luca Norton presents the problems associated with the influence of misinformation on policy about medical assistance in dying in Canada. __________________________________________ As Canada prepares to expand Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) to include individuals whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness in March 2027, public discourse has erupted. With it c...

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