Government of Canada announces funding to support an opioid agonist treatment (OAT) Provider Network The opioid crisis continues to be one of the most serious public health issues in Canada’s recent history. Between January 2016 and September 2018 more than 10,300 Canadians died from an apparent opioid-related overdose. On April 24th, Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, … Continued
Story originally appears on The Daily Scan. It was February 5, 6:04 pm. Chris Dawkins had just finished a workout on his home rowing machine when he suddenly collapsed. Dawkins, a 55-year-old Vancouver physician, was in cardiac arrest. His heart had stopped beating and he was clinically dead. His wife of 30 years, Fran, was … Continued
When Geoff Marsh discovered that he required surgery for rectal cancer, he was determined to bounce back to his active lifestyle as quickly as possible, and to break the record for the shortest hospital stay following the operation. “The day before my surgery,I did 44 push-ups and a four-minute plank,” says Marsh, whose colorectal surgeon … Continued