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Was my wife’s hospital care an anomaly or the new normal in Ontario? - Healthy Debate I had hoped my wife would get timely and dignified care like I'd received in the past. She did not.

Was my wife’s hospital care an anomaly or the new normal in Ontario?

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Expanding access to disability supports: the case for impact investing - Healthy Debate Families with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities are often left to pay out-of-pocket for services.

Expanding access to disability supports: the case for impact investing

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We are taught to fix the system – then forced to waste time in it - Healthy Debate Every year, medical students across the country must submit forms verifying their vaccine history – forms that we already submitted last year, and the year before that.

We are taught to fix the system – then forced to waste time in it

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Trust those who heal, not those who provoke - Healthy Debate A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.

Trust those who heal, not those who provoke:

A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.

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Trust those who heal, not those who provoke - Healthy Debate A Seuss-style rhyme on the very real harm of health misinformation.

"Let’s name what is harmful and who fans the flames, Let’s fact-check the fiction that masquerades as claims.

Because rhymes can be silly, but health isn’t a joke. Let’s trust those who heal — not those who provoke."

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‘I understand’: Words of empathy that have helped me through residency - Healthy Debate That evening, they walked me past the point we usually diverged and sat with me in my apartment lobby. They sat as I cried. They listened.

‘I understand’: Words of empathy that have helped me through residency

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Black mistrust is logical and rational: What public health policymakers must learn from Black communities - Healthy Debate Black communities do not need more reactive inclusion. We need structural change built from trust, not just crisis.

Black mistrust is logical and rational: What public health policymakers must learn from Black communities

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Food security is health security: Tackling Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous communities - Healthy Debate First Nations on reserve have Type 2 diabetes rates three to five times higher than the rest of Canada. Yet, they remain underserved and underrepresented in health policy and decision-making.

Food security is health security: Tackling Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous communities

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Obesity and food insecurity in Canada: Two sides of the same coin - Healthy Debate Addressing food insecurity and obesity together requires a multi-layered, long-term strategy.

Obesity and food insecurity in Canada: Two sides of the same coin

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Financially sustainable and fair: Value-based care a solution to pay disparities and health-care system strain - Healthy Debate The gender-based physician compensation gap is more than a workplace injustice – it undermines the efficiency and effectiveness of the Canadian health-care system.

Financially sustainable and fair: Value-based care a solution to pay disparities and health-care system strain

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#ScienceMatters. Canadian medical, research, clinical and health-care organizations stand up for science - Healthy Debate We all have a role to play in standing up for science. Speak up and share your stories about how false health information is impacting you, Canada and the world.

#ScienceMatters

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In Canada & around the world, science is under attack.

How Hollywood’s obsession with the ‘Dry Look’ harms men and boys - Healthy Debate Increasingly distorted male beauty standards have come to celebrate visible dehydration as a physical ideal.

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"Anxiety over perceived physical flaws is a major feature of the manosphere, as can be seen by the rise of the 'looksmaxxing'..."

Housing the frontline: Solving the health workforce crisis starts with a place to live - Healthy Debate To build the strong and sustainable health-care system we need, affordable housing must be treated as essential workforce infrastructure.

Housing the frontline: Solving the health workforce crisis starts with a place to live

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Patient Perspectives: Telling our stories is critical to improving care - Healthy Debate As a physician, nothing will tell you more than simply asking someone how their illness impacts their lives and listening closely to their answers.

Patient Perspectives: Telling our stories is critical to improving care

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When patients ask about psychedelics - Healthy Debate Over the past decade, scientific interest in psychedelics such as psilocybin and MDMA has risen, along with recreational use.

When patients ask about #psychedelics

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#ScienceMatters. Canadian medical, research, clinical and health-care organizations stand up for science - Healthy Debate We all have a role to play in standing up for science. Speak up and share your stories about how false health information is impacting you, Canada and the world.

#ScienceMatters. Canadian medical, research, clinical and health-care organizations stand up for science

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Rethinking mental health and substance use health solutions - Healthy Debate What if you or someone you know needs mental health and substance use health care right now? Do you know exactly where to go to get what you need?

Rethinking mental health and substance use health solutions

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'And the dead cannot recover’: The fatal consequences of closing Supervised Consumption Sites - Healthy Debate Bill 223 ordered the closure of more than half of Ontario’s 17 supervised consumption sites with no equivalent replacement.

‘And the dead cannot recover’: The fatal consequences of closing Supervised Consumption Sites

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The Non-Suturable Wounds - Healthy Debate A poem inspired by University of Toronto medical student Ye-Jean Park's clerkship rotation.

A poem inspired by University of Toronto medical student Ye-Jean Park's clerkship rotation.

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We can no longer afford the wrong leadership for our medical organizations - Healthy Debate Choose leaders for what they can do, not where they come from. The right competencies will carry the profession – and the health system – forward.

We can no longer afford the wrong leadership for our medical organizations

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The MS treatment gap: How costs and outdated policies limit care in Canada - Healthy Debate Provinces have yet to implement coverage policies that would ensure MS patients receive optimal care.

The MS treatment gap: How costs and outdated policies limit care in Canada

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Why it’s important Canada accredits its own medical schools - Healthy Debate

Why it’s important Canada accredits its own medical schools

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Training more doctors is a start. Let’s make sure our health system is ready for them - Healthy Debate If we want to build a resilient, equitable health-care system, we need to reimagine how we recruit, train and retain the next generation of doctors.

Training more doctors is a start. Let’s make sure our health system is ready for them

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First, do no harm: An oath for regulators confronting the harms of pesticides - Healthy Debate When we aim to kill as pesticides currently do, harm is done to all who live on this planet. Imagine the future if regulators aligned with physicians in taking the oath to first, do no harm.

First, do no harm: An oath for regulators confronting the harms of pesticides

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Young and at risk: How Canada is failing our future - Healthy Debate In a country as wealthy as Canada, youth should not have to fight to survive. They deserve the chance to thrive and secure a better future for us all.

Young and at risk: How Canada is failing our future

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Building capacity to attach all Ontarians to primary care: The Patient Core Team - Healthy Debate As the province works toward attaching all Ontarians to primary care, it’s time to re-imagine how we build teams to support this new objective.

Building capacity to attach all Ontarians to primary care: The Patient Core Team

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Aspiration alone is not adequate: Breast screening task force missing the mark - Healthy Debate When it comes to the Canadian Task Force, health advocacy is an integral role for any medical professional. There is no desire to generate more “business.”

To tackle Ontario’s mental health crisis, we must transform nursing education

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‘Good hands for a woman’: Study exposes gender bias in surgery  - Healthy Debate Deeply ingrained gender biases within surgery are discouraging women from entering the field, according to findings in a new McGill University study.

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