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Quebec mulls scrapping family doctors for healthy patients

The Quebec government is considering the possibility of changing how family doctors are assigned based on Quebecers’ health to ensure…

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Nova Scotia

Nurse awarded $61K after dog attack in patient’s Halifax-area home

A Halifax-area couple has found out the hard way that failing to keep control of their dog can be expensive.…

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Health

Patients leaving hospital against advice likelier to OD: study

A new study has found that patients in B.C. who left hospitals against medical advice were 60 per cent more…

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Health

From reading dreams to helping locked-in patients — what the future of EEG could look like

The brainwave-reading technology of EEG helps monitor people with epilepsy and can detect when we’re dozing off behind the wheel…

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Health

Former Manitoba doctor sentenced to 12 years for sexually assaulting patients

A former family doctor has been sentenced to 12 years for sexually assaulting seven women during medical appointments and examinations in Ste.…

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Politics

Doug Ford’s joke about sending overflow patients to vet draws ire

Ontario’s opposition parties are criticizing Premier Doug Ford for joking about sending “overflow” human patients to a new animal hospital.…

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Health

More than 70 per cent of dentists now accepting patients through Canadian Dental Care Plan

More than 70 per cent of dentists are now accepting patients through Canada’s new public dental insurance program — a significant increase over…

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Canada

Canadian patients’ needs are increasingly complex. Health care should reflect that: CMA

More Canadians should receive their main health care through teams of professionals so their increasingly complex needs can be met…

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Health

Fake nurse pleads guilty to assaulting patients by IV injection

A fake nurse who treated nearly 1,000 patients at medical facilities in Vancouver and Victoria wept Friday as she pleaded…

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Canada

Whitehorse hospital patients being treated in offices, hallways during latest capacity surge

The Whitehorse General Hospital is experiencing another capacity surge.  A bulletin posted to the Yukon Hospital Corporation website Thursday says…

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