Compassion is defined as the emotional response to another’s pain or suffering involving an authentic desire to help. In the medical profession, one would think that compassion should be a cornerstone of caring for patients, it is currently debatable if health care providers (HCP) compassion is merely an “ought” – a moral imperative out of…
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Food as Medicine
Suggested Reading: Why Food could Be the Best Medicine of All – Time Magazine Today’s societies are faced with so many “dooms-day” stories about what life will be for humans on this planet for the generations of tomorrow; and the outlook does n’t look very good. We have environmental emergencies, robots taking over our jobs,…
Saving Medicare
Medicare in Canada is a government-funded universal health insurance program established by legislation passed in 1957, 1966 and 1984. The Canada Health Act does not cover prescription drugs, home care or long-term care or dental care, which means most Canadians rely on private insurance from their employers or the government to pay for those costs….
Ladies Up Stairs! My Life in Politics – Monique Begin
Hardcover, 540 pages Published: December 21st 2018 Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press ISBN: 0773555226 (ISBN13: 9780773555228) In January 1973, Monique Bégin was among the newly elected MPs rushing into the House of Commons for the opening of Parliament, when she was stopped at the doors by a Security Commissioner. Bégin was entering Parliament as one of the first three…
