The 500th heart transplant patient was already in the hospital, waiting for a heart, when one became available. He’d heard about the approaching milestone and told the staff he had a premonition that he would be number 500 If they ...

For the last 14 years, registered nurses (RN) have visited Queen’s Park to meet one-on-one with MPPs and cabinet ministers. Dubbed Queen’s Park Day (QP Day), this tradition, hosted by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO), allows RNs, nurse ...

A Power of Attorney for Personal Care (“POA”) is a legal document in which an individual can specify who has authority to make care decisions on his or her behalf in the event that person becomes mentally incapable of doing ...

Dr. Robert Howard is President and CEO of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. Before I talk about our renewal project at St. Michael’s Hospital, I want to take advantage of this column’s publication in May to thank nurses across the ...

Dawn Plater (left) is a member of the Surgical Services team as a Perioperative Nurse at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre. As Clinical Nurse Specialist, Christine Erickson (right) provides clinical expertise, leadership, research, education and consultation in Perioperative ...

Dr. Corinne Fischer supervises two research assistants during a patient consultation at the St. Michael’s Memory Disorders Clinic When she was in her late 60s, Diana Pritchard began noticing that her memory wasn’t what it used to be. She’d forget ...

As the RRSP deadline looms, many Canadians are thinking about retirement planning.  Chances are you are wondering whether or not you’ll have enough to retire.  Given the uncertainty about the economy, stock markets, housing costs, pensions and interest rates, many ...

Nurses (from left to right) Nicole Sereda, Melayne Swant and Tram Dao are collaborating with other healthcare team members on the 2B Medical unit in the MOVE ON project to promote mobilization and prevent decline in older hospital patients. Although ...

Mark Johnston hugged his wife Sheri Lynn, for the last time. She was unaware of the embrace. She was already gone. In the early hours of August 31st Sheri Lynn, 41, took her last breath and succumbed to the disease she ...

    Dr. Stephen Bagg, Clinical Director of the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Program at Providence Care, is one of several physiatrists who provide consultations with patients through a Telestroke and Virtual Rehabilitation Clinic. He consults from his personal desktop videoconference ...