Background: Pay inequality related to social identity has been observed among physicians, even after accounting for hours worked and specialty. Physician identity factors, such as gender and race, may ...
Key points A 20-year-old pediatric cancer survivor presented to her local oncology centre in southwestern Ontario with right supraclavicular adenopathy. She had a history of stage IIA Hodgkin lymphoma ...
A 76-year-old man on dabigatran for rate-controlled atrial fibrillation had follow-up transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) after bioprosthetic valve replacements. An echogenic, nonmobile mass (3.8 × 1 ...
A 3-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with limping. On the morning of the presentation, she had jumped off a stair step and subsequently refused to stand. Although we did not observe ...
Key points Canada’s health care systems are under strain, with 6.5 million people in Canada lacking a primary care provider,[1][1] which increases patient complexity and volumes and contributes to ...
Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia are common during pregnancy and are associated with adverse outcomes Prenatal iron deficiency occurs in more than 30% of pregnancies in Canada. 1 It has been ...
A 35-year-old man presented to the dermatology department with penile ulcers. Two weeks previously, the initial ulcer had begun as a papule, progressed to a painful ulcer, and then spread. Soon after ...
Key points A 53-year-old woman with rectosigmoid adenocarcinoma was seen in the radiation oncology clinic for her fifth and final fraction of neoadjuvant radiotherapy, where she reported chills, ...
An 83-year-old man presented to the emergency department with fatigue and proximal upper- and lower-limb weakness, 10 days after a diarrheal illness. His medical history included type 2 diabetes ...
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a guideline for diagnosis across the lifespan ...
Background: Acupuncture is commonly used to treat migraine. We assessed the efficacy of acupuncture at migraine-specific acupuncture points compared with other acupuncture points and sham acupuncture.
Access to health care: Distance to primary care and its association with health care use and quality of care in Ontario: a cross-sectional study ...