Reading Time: 4 minutes Providing comfort care should be the first priority for those nearing the end
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How doctors can help tackle their patients’ poverty
Reading Time: 4 minutes . . . without leaving the doctor’s office
Deadly prescription opioid epidemic must be stopped
Reading Time: 3 minutes An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Canadians have died from opioids since 1995
Integrate physical and mental health services for better care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Individuals with both psychiatric and medical illnesses can’t get the care they need it because of the way health services are delivered
Liberals must keep their promise to end income-splitting
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provides relatively little tax relief for low-income families, and skirts single parents altogether
Eye exams for school-age children should be mandatory
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most Canadian children never have their eyes examined, yet one in six may have a vision problem
Four steps to improving health care in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Achieving these four goals can lead to the next, necessary evolution in health care
Why it is critical we learn from past healthcare mistakes
Reading Time: 4 minutes Failure, after all, is part of the process of improvement
Anti HPV vaccine article troubling and disappointing
Reading Time: 4 minutes The risks associated with HPV infection much greater than the risks associated with vaccination