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CBC: How the head of critical care in London sees this ‘brutal virus’
Dr. Wael Haddara is a Chair Chief of Critical Care Medicine at the London Health Science Centre. (Wael Haddara) There are more people than ever before being treated for COVID-19 in intensive care units across Ontario. No one knows what that looks like or its...
CTV News: Case counts not the only measure of COVID-19 severity, say London doctors
Left Dr. Robert Arntfield, right Dr. Wael Haddara. LONDON, ONT -- While it may be human nature to grow increasingly concerned over the rising positive COVID-19 case counts in Ontario, a pair of London’s top intensive care unit physicians say it’s not the only measure...
Global News: Returning students could cause COVID-19 infections to double in University towns: New study finds
A new research study from Western University researchers says that returning students in university towns could double the number of COVID-19 infections. The study by researcher and lead author Lauren Cipriano, associate professor of management science at Ivey...
London Free Press: Coronavirus exposes shaky sustainability of our health-care system
As the first wave of the coronavirus is subsiding, we have time to begin to survey the damage it is leaving in its wake. We have already become aware of the impact of the coronavirus on minority and disadvantaged communities. We are now attuned to the dismal state of...
Healthy Debate: Pandemic Exposes The Importance of Character
In this series, AMS Healthcare addresses the challenges facing healthcare today – particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The AMS Community promotes compassionate care, development of the leadership needed to realize the promise of technology and the...
Docter’s Pay
I wrote this back in 2004 and published in the London Free Press in response to a columnist’s suggestion that Doctors are “milking the system”… It has some relevance now with the unilateral moves by the Ontario Government to decrease doctors’ fees. I should state that...
Thou Shalt Honour The Honour System
Another piece from a while ago – A few days ago I had to help transport a critically ill 25 year old across town from University Hospital to Victoria Hospital. The ambulance in which we were transporting this young patient was being driven with lights blazing and...
Informed Consent
This piece was originally written in 2006. Although Ariel Sharon’s massive stroke figures in the beginning, this was really just the instigator for a broader piece on consent. The headlines were suitably dramatic. The Globe’s was ‘With victory in his grasp, fate...
We Will All Die – Why Not At Home?
This is a piece that I wrote and was published in the London Free Press back in March 2005 An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted last fall revealed that although 95% of Canadians would like to die at home, 75% continue to die in hospital. In the discussion about the future of...
… and must support him into death
Apologies in advance for the death-related themes… In my line of work it’s difficult to avoid or minimize. Roughly one-fifth to one-quarter (20-25%) of all patients admitted to a tertiary care intensive care unit die. One of the challenges of health care and I strive...
I dont know what is worse, that Eric Trump thinks its ok to suggest Ivanka weighed in on a significant decision like this or that possibility it's true. For the record, I'm essentially in support of the strike - with the caveat that it's not likely anywhere near enough, nor does it change my perspective on the administration....
www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/ivanka-trump-syria-strike-influence-telegraph/index.html
Eric Trump: Ivanka influenced Syria strike decision
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President Donald Trump has said that the horrific images from a chemical weapons attack in Syria compelled him to authorize a missile strike against an Assad-regime airbase last week. But according to his son, Eric Trump, another key White House voice may have also influenced his decision to use mil...How can a company destroy its public image and turn customers away in one easy step? See story below. If your *core* business is getting people from point A to point B and you fail at that, it's bad enough. But when you then add to it a mini horror story ... how do you expect to stay in business?
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WATCH: Man forcibly removed from overbooked United flight
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Security removed the doctor after no passengers on flight from Chicago accepted the airlines' offer of $800 and a free hotel room
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Someone recently tried to draw parallels between Kais Saied’s actions and President @MuhammadMorsi ‘a November 2012 constitutional declaration. 1/ #Tunis #Egypt #Morsi