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What are the implications for a physician when a patient wants them to participate in assisted-suicide?
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 11, 2015 Source: In wake of assisted-suicide ruling, a huge question looms: who does the killing?
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Improved hospital standards and adaptation reduced hospital-related deaths
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 3, 2014 Source: Hospital deaths down by 400 a year at The Ottawa Hospital, new data show Reference: Your Health System
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Electronic medical records being adopted by more practices according to survey
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 2, 2014 Source: Digital divide: More doctors now keeping patient records electronically: survey
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Ontario e-cigarette ban law: Trust government to ignore the evidence and pass policy anyway
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 26, 2014 Source: Ontario bans flavoured tobacco, cracks down on e-cigarettes Jesse Kline: Don’t believe the fear campaign — e-cigarettes can save millions of lives Jesse Kline: Ontario’s fear-based decision making
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Ontario health stats have serious methodology flaws for some measurements
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 21, 2014 Source: Health report finds access to care an issue Reference: How Healthy Are Ontarians and How Is Our Health System Performing?
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The unintended consequences of quarantining health care workers returning from West Africa
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 27, 2014
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University of Ottawa bars medical students from assessing people with fever and cough over Ebola fear. Really?
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 24, 2014
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Risk perception: Imagine the reaction if news reported 10,000 deaths from a virus in one month compared to the ebola coverage
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 10, 2014 Source: What to know about this year’s flu virus