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Charity fills the gap in pet fostering services for struggling community members in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
For The Homies is a new grassroots organization offering much-needed pet fostering services for community members and their ...
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Empowering choices: The importance of advance care planning
Advance care planning empowers individuals to have their health-care preferences honoured, offering peace of mind to both ...
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‘We do not need compassionate care: We need a country that cares with compassion’
We do not need compassionate care: We need a country that cares with compassion.
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‘The first time students see a patient of colour should not be in hospital’: The need for diverse patient actors
The first patients Ontario’s medical students encounter are actors – standardized patients (SPs) trained to imitate the symptoms and signs of illness. Students practice how to diagnose and disclose ...
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Patient Perspectives: Is patient experience finally having its moment?
Editor’s note: Watch for Patient Perspectives, a column by Lisa Machado dealing with health care from the user’s point of view that will appear regularly in Healthy Debate. When biotech giant Roche ...