ICYMI — Drug decriminalization is not to blame for all of our social woes. By André Picard via The Globe and Mail #cdnpoli #opiodcrisis theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Obituary: Tenacious journalist Joan Hollobon helped make medical stories front-page news. The legendary The Globe and Mail medical reporter has died at age 104, by André Picard theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… #journalism #WomenInJournalism

'The eminent surgeon, like many of his generation, believed it was beneath him to speak to a lowly journalist, especially a woman. So he simply handed her a page of “facts” he felt should be printed in the paper... Hollobon was undeterred.'

RIP to a legendary health reporter.

Joan was a treasure — and a tiger. She made front when it was a very hard thing to do. The competition was intense. But she fought for her stories.
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The Canada Health Act is 40. Does it need updating, or do we need a fresh start? By André Picard via The Globe and Mail #cdnhealth #cdnpoli theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

RIP — Tenacious journalist Joan Hollobon helped make medical stories front-page news. By André Picard via The Globe and Mail #journalism #scicomm #cdnhealth theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Grief and the Unexpected Loss of a Loved One: Grieving father @DavidFrum reflects on the death of his daughter Miranda. Q+A by Steve Paikin tvo.org/video/david-fr… via TVO Today | The Agenda #grief

Joan Hollobon, the The Globe and Mail. #WomenInJournalism

Joan Hollobon, O.C. 29 January 1920 - 3 April 2024.
My friend and mentor died this morning at the age of 104. Joan was the The Globe and Mail health reporter from 1959 to 1985, a trailblazer and a legend of 🇨🇦 #journalism sciencewriters.ca/widget/blog/78… via Science Writers and Communicators of Canada World Federation of Science Journalists #WomenInJournalism

ICYMI —The doctor-patient relationship is sacrosanct, and having the courts second-guess the clinical judgment of physicians and nurse practitioners is inappropriate. By André Picard via The Globe and Mail #cdnhealth #MAID theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

The British Royal family’s #cancer woes have made the disease top-of-mind, but a new book reminds us to follow the science when assessing the right balance for screening programs. By André Picard via 😎The Globe and Mail😎 #scicomm theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Brian Mulroney obituary | Canada | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

Diversion of safer supply drugs is a trivial issue distracting us from the real challenge: Toxic drug deaths. By ⁦André Picard⁩ via ⁦The Globe and Mail⁩ #HarmReduction #cdnhealth theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

It's become common to blame the outbreak of #measles on immigrants/refugees. But all new arrivals to Canada undergo health assessments, including #vaccination status. Measles cases are being imported by Canadian citizens travelling abroad, not newcomers. canada.ca/en/public-heal…

Tonight just closed up my memorial article for The Atlantic about my brilliant and brave daughter, Miranda Frum

Paul Alexander died yesterday of #COVID19 , at age 78. He contracted #polio in 1952, at age 6, and was paralyzed from the neck down. Paul lived the next 72 years in an iron lung.
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It is not wrong to memorialize a teen who died by #suicide in a high school yearbook: We should not be silent about mental illness and suicide. Teens certainly aren’t silent about it; the issues are part of their everyday conversations. By André Picard theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

The proposed new #pharmacare program is essentially yet another pilot project which don’t have a very good record of being scaled up in Canada — and this one starts with a lot of question marks. By André Picard via 😎The Globe and Mail😎 #cdnhealth theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

You know what makes me angry?

When I admit a patient with metastatic cancer who’s unlikely to survive… and if that patient had been able to access a family doctor and simple routine screening tests they would have been most likely cured months ago. Now it’s too late.

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#Measles spreading in Ontario, Quebec with cases of unknown origin. If community transmission is occurring, that would have significant public-health ramifications, by Carly Weeks theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail #vaccination