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Ask a Doctor: Why Canadian medicare should neither ‘go Dutch’ or ‘go to the dogs’

August 8, 2014

This is the title of a very interesting article in one of the medical newspapers I subscribe. It is in regards to a ...

Ask the Doctor: Aging, Quality of Life, and Pain

July 15, 2014

According to recent statistics the number of persons >60 in the world, will double from 756 to 1400 million by ...

Ask the Doctor: “Why don’t you listen to me?” A double-edged sword

March 27, 2014

The other day, I was in a cab going to a meeting in a downtown hospital, when the driver, a sympathetic young man ...

Ask the Doctor: The placebo effect revisited

April 3, 2013

For those who follow my column regularly, about 2-3 years ago I wrote an article on the power of placebos. To refresh ...

Ask the Doctor # 57: Pain Management in End-of-Life Care and the role of pain medications

February 8, 2013

In this article, I will specifically address the issue of how pain is managed with medications. As discussed in the ...

Ask a Doctor: A real story of Indomitable spirit

November 16, 2012

A few weeks ago, my first patient of the day was a woman in her mid50s (‘ll call her Kate – not her real name-). ...

Ask the Doctor: Packaging science to change policy

August 24, 2012

This probably seems like a strange title for this article. Not to worry dear reader, you will soon understand what the ...

Ask the Doctor: Fixing broken back bones

May 25, 2012

When a patient of mine visited me recently (a lovely 74-year old-woman), she wanted to know if a special procedure ...

Ask the Doctor: A lost battle in our War on Pain

March 23, 2012

I borrowed this title from the thoughtful article by André Picard, published in The Globe and Mail on March 6, 2012. ...

Ask the Doctor: The 5 crises in Pain Management

February 24, 2012

February 24th 2012: I just could not resist passing on to you a summary of an article that hit my desk. It bears the ...