‘This is a place of healing’: The power of a sweat-lodge ceremony
WEBApr 4, 2022 · The accompanying prayer and healing ceremony are a purification and balance of the body, mind, spirit, and emotions, Hwiemtun explains. Hwiemtun inherited his role as a sweat lodge keeper from his Lakota uncle Melvin more than 40 years ago. In the lodge, remade with fresh boughs every spring, participants sit …
Hospitals ‘bleeding out’ as nursing shortage intensifies
WEBOct 28, 2021 · The nursing shortage has long been predicted by the Canadian Nurses Association as a result of changing health-care needs and an aging population. The pandemic has exacerbated the shortage, leading to understaffing and hospital unit closings. It has taken a significant mental-health toll on nurses and …
When bread becomes difficult to swallow. - Healthy Debate
WEBJun 8, 2020 · Patients with EoE can have a number of symptoms such as trouble swallowing, painful swallowing, feeling like food gets stuck, abdominal pain, throwing up and more, all of which have the potential to severely impact patients’ quality of life. Certain foods – bread, or meat for example – can make these symptoms worse.
Ontario’s mental health laws must change to protect our most …
WEBJul 18, 2022 · Legislative changes will align Ontario with the majority of Canada to facilitate psychiatric care for those who need it the most, creating a more equitable and effective mental health system. Ontario’s current mental health laws create barriers for front-line physicians to treat vulnerable patients experiencing psychosis.
Public conversation on the ethics of intensive care triage during ...
WEBApr 15, 2021 · your comments are interesting but we are no where near a disaster when we have over 2300 icu beds with only 600 covid patients in them. Late March we had 1800 of theses 2300 beds occupied..
What you need to know about palliative care and dying at home
WEBJan 13, 2015 · my wife has been fighting colon cancer for 5 1/2 years she was discharged from her oncologist in December of 2018, it has spread to her liver, lungs, bladder and unitary track. she has been under palliative at home which as been a dismal failure we tried to deal with it until we had to call an ambulance in December 2019 to take her to the hospital and after some test they determined it has ...
‘Chipping away at barriers’: Nurse practitioners filling primary-care ...
WEBMar 15, 2022 · While Ontario was first out of the gate with NPs, and accepts about 225 nurses each year into primary-care NP programs, enrolment has not grown in more than a decade despite a 74 per cent increase in applicants from 2020 to 2021. Canada has only 7,910 licensed NPs (compared to more than 325,000 …
YouTuber ViolinMD explains why she’s demystifying health care …
WEBApr 14, 2021 · Siobhan Deshauer is a fourth-year resident specializing in rheumatology at McMaster University in Hamilton. She is also an accomplished violinist and popular YouTuber who makes videos about health care under the social-media handle ViolinMD. Since starting her channel three years ago, she has acquired more than 770,000 subscribers; her most ...
Anthony Fong - Healthy Debate
WEBApr 12, 2022 · Anthony Fong is an emergency physician in Vancouver and clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine. He has recently completed a fellowship in global journalism at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. 13 Contributions. Aug 15, 2022. by Monica Kidd Anthony Fong.
Fake journals in the age of fake news: the dangers of predatory ...
WEBJul 20, 2020 · In 2019, with anti-science rhetoric at a high point, trust in institutions declining and fake news rampant, the World Health Organization named vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate – one the main threats to public health. Publishing distorted/fake results in predatory journals only compounds this lack of trust.
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