Dr. Andrea Furlan is an expert in pain management. The Toronto MD and researcher has spent years treating patients with chronic pain, and often that meant prescribing them opioids.
But lately, she’s relying on her prescription pad less and less.
“These days have been different. I think I became an expert in de-prescribing opioids,” she tells Dr. Brian Goldman, host of White Coat, Black Art.
What do fibromyalgia, a condition that includes chronic muscle pain, and S&M have in common?
Not much, except that a Mississauga rheumatologist saw fit to ask a female patient about the sexual practice when she came to see him for treatment.
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The Wynne government is getting into the business of providing home care directly, quietly creating a new provincial agency that could eventually serve hundreds of thousands of patients in Ontario, CBC News has learned.
The move would mean personal support workers (PSWs) become provincial employees. It also has the potential to take a significant portion of the $2.5 billion in annual publicly-funded home care away from the for-profit and not-for-profit agencies currently providing it.
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According to a new survey of Ontario health-care workers, incidents like these aren’t isolated tragedies. In fact, 68 per cent of nurses and personal support workers across the province have experienced physical violence at least once on the job over the past year, a poll conducted for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions shows. Some 42 per cent experienced at least one incident of sexual harassment or assault.
For a group so fond of proclaiming its commitment to social justice, the Wynne government has done remarkably little to help some of the very poorest people in Ontario.
The basic rates for the province’s social assistance programs are far below the generally accepted poverty line, and the government hasn’t done much to change that.
“Not only must justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” It’s an adage that’s taken on a new meaning in Atlantic Canada when it comes to the composition of provincial Supreme Courts.
In an open letter to Canada’s justice minister Oct. 25, a group representing Atlantic trial lawyers called on Ottawa to follow its new diversity and merit-based process to ensure transparency and fairness with judicial appointments.
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A civil claim is a lawsuit between individuals and/or corporations. It can address disputes about terms of contracts, or claims for injury to a person, their property or reputation.
Ms. Doyon was injured in a car accident February 9, 2009 and applied for arbitration after mediation failed. The issues in the hearing included entitlement to monthly attendant care benefits (ACBs), payment for medical marijuana and growing equipment, and interest. The evidence before the Arbitrator was presented by way of an Agreed Statement of Facts, medical reports and other documents. There was also oral testimony from Ms. Doyon plus doctors and occupational therapists on both sides.
An Ontario doctor says health-care wait times have reached “insane” lengths in the province, as one of her patients faces a 4.5-year wait to see a neurologist.