To improve Indigenous women’s health, there must be a drastic change to the health-care system and how we view health.
Addressing economic and digital safety is no longer optional for health policy. It is a core component of patient wellbeing.
One medical resident's exchange in Berlin taught her not only about German culture, but how language and other support ...
For my New Year’s resolution, I am reminded that our only true guarantee is the present moment. Amid busy schedules and ...
The message is conveyed to millions of young women who grow up in Canada: period pain is normal; pelvic pain is normal; pushing through discomfort is normal. By the time they finally see a doctor, ...
In Leadership Lessons from a Pot of Flowers, I wrote that the deepest strength of health care lives in its unseen roots; trust, connection, belonging. Nowhere is that truer, or more fragile, than in ...
Hazel Perron was 6 years old in February 2022 when she was diagnosed with a diffuse midline glioma, an incurable brain tumour. A kindergartner at École Centrale, a K-to-Grade-5 French-immersion school ...
When the next pandemic arrives (and it will!) Canada will once again face urgent questions: Which treatments work? For whom? At what dose? And how quickly should we act? During the COVID pandemic, we ...
For many, turning 18 signals newfound independence – starting post-secondary education, embarking on a first job or moving out of their childhood home. But for those living with a rare medical ...
In Health-care’s domino effect: Turning challenges into building blocks, I wrote that crises in health care behave like falling dominoes, one tipping the next, revealing fragility everywhere. The ...
Across the street from Toronto’s Scotiabank Theatre is an aptly named bar, Blessing in Disguise. Its neon sign was what I first noticed stepping out of a Toronto International Film Festival screening, ...