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doctos putting an injured person onto a stretcher
Technology

How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Hospitals Save Lives

December 8, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Conor Lavelle

The need for better, faster diagnosis means your next ER doctor could be a robot

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Health

The North Needs More Doctors

November 22, 2017November 27, 2019 - by Sarah Giles

As a locum doctor in the Northwest Territories, I know that residents do not always get the health care they deserve

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Iluustration of a man in a hospital gown
Health / November 2017

Why Is No One Talking About Hospital-Acquired Delirium?

October 24, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Sydney Loney

Every year, bad care leaves hundreds of thousands of patients with a devastating mental disorder

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Photograph by James Baker
Health

The Case For Diagnosing Yourself Online

September 12, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Rohit Khanna

Googling our ailments is turning us into a nation of hypochondriacs. But it could also help fix an overburdened health care system

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Images courtesy of Science Museum/Wellcome Images, with the exception of No. 2 (National Library of Medicine)
December 2015

Doctors without Science

December 19, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Philip E. Tetlock

A brief history of quackery, from leeches to ostrich eggs

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Illustration by Stuart Rankin
Health

Invasive Procedure

September 21, 2015November 14, 2021 - by Josh Ng-Kamstra

Why sexism and lack of diversity in operating rooms needs to be scrubbed

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old medical instruments
June 2015

This Might Hurt

May 28, 2015May 12, 2022 - by Nik Mirus

Archaic instruments from the attic of Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital

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A drawing of a woman with floral patterns around her
Health / July/August 2014

Viral Agent

July 28, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Lisan Jutras

A forgotten weapon for the post-antibiotic era

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Photograph by Andrew B. Myers
April 2012

The Errors of Their Ways

April 12, 2012October 18, 2021 - by Rachel Giese

Some 24,000 Canadians will die this year from medical mistakes. Even the most temperate doctors call this an epidemic. Why these mishaps persist despite, and even because of, medicine’s growing sophistication

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Illustration by Ross MacDonald
September 2011

Blinded by Science

September 12, 2011April 19, 2020 - by Timothy Caulfield

Modern-day hucksters are cashing in on vulnerable patients

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