When bread becomes difficult to swallow. - Healthy Debate
WEBJun 8, 2020 · Patients with EoE can have a number of symptoms such as trouble swallowing, painful swallowing, feeling like food gets stuck, abdominal pain, throwing up and more, all of which have the potential to severely impact patients’ quality of life. Certain foods – bread, or meat for example – can make these symptoms worse.
‘This is a place of healing’: The power of a sweat-lodge ceremony
WEBApr 4, 2022 · The accompanying prayer and healing ceremony are a purification and balance of the body, mind, spirit, and emotions, Hwiemtun explains. Hwiemtun inherited his role as a sweat lodge keeper from his Lakota uncle Melvin more than 40 years ago. In the lodge, remade with fresh boughs every spring, participants sit …
A violinist turned doctor is hitting all the right notes on YouTube
WEBApr 14, 2021 · Siobhan Deshauer is a fourth-year resident specializing in rheumatology at McMaster University. She also makes videos about health care under the social-media handle ViolinMD. Her channel now has over 770,000 subscribers; her top videos have 2.4 million views. We chatted with ViolinMD about her background, her …
Ontario’s registered practical nurses deserve ‘fair compensation’
WEBApr 13, 2021 · Ontario’s registered practical nurses deserve ‘fair compensation’. More than a year has now passed since Ontario first entered a province-wide lockdown. One year that our nurses, and their colleagues in health care, have been fighting tirelessly on the front lines of this pandemic. A fight that has cost, to date, nearly 50 Canadian health ...
Medicine Wheel: How I use its teachings in my healing journey
WEBOct 3, 2018 · The Medicine Wheel teaches us that we have four aspects to ourselves: the physical, the mental, the emotional, and the spiritual. Each must be in balance and equally developed in order for us to remain healthy, happy individuals. According to the book “ The Sacred Tree,” written by Phil Lane, Jr, Judie Bopp, Michael Bopp, Lee Brown and ...
How long is too long? Assessing wait times in Canadian EDs
WEBIn 2018 to 2019, the average wait time for patients across Canadian EDs was three to four hours. This merely represents the time to first assessment by a physician. Since wait times vary from one province to another, some patients are more likely to be impacted than others. Quebec was found to have the longest wait time, at nearly five hours ...
Palliative care can’t wait: what I wish I’d known as my wife was dying
WEBJul 5, 2017 · But a little foreknowledge could have alleviated some of the suffering of those last few days, both Suzanne’s and my own. Paul Adams’ wife, Suzanne Szukits, a Canadian diplomat, died last September at the age of 56. My wife Suzanne had done everything she could to prepare for her death. But without access to …
The right to die: Should MAiD apply to those whose sole condition …
WEBMay 25, 2022 · “There are good ethical reasons for giving (patients with intractable severe mental illnesses) access to MAiD: A good society ought to respect and support autonomous patients’ decision to request MAiD based on their own considered views about their experienced quality of life in so far as their suffering is caused by an intractable medical condition at the time of decision-making.
Dying at home: What I learned from my husband’s death
WEBMay 31, 2017 · The night my husband died, I slept beside his corpse in our bed. All night. This wasn’t exactly by choice: the funeral home did not retrieve bodies after 8 p.m., and there was no other bed available for me to sleep in, as all our children were home to help care for their father. I tell this story whenever I discuss the realities of dying at home.
Cord blood banking in Canada - Healthy Debate
WEBNov 14, 2013 · Private or ‘family banks’. There are nine private, or ‘family’ banks across Canada that facilitate the collection and storage of cord blood for the exclusive use of patients and their families. This comes at a cost. Most private banks charge about $1000 for the initial cord blood extraction and assessment, and about $100 per year for ...