Sunday House Call, #728, March 1, 2020: The approach to Covid-19 when it finally comes is to remember the sage advice of Kipling’s If.

Topics today include:

The arrival of Covid-19 in Canada and to your town or city is likely over the next few months. There are strategies to which if we all adhere that will reduce the rate of spread and strain on on each other and our health care system. Buy some extra groceries and necessities but we need to avoid acting as they did in Vancouver. Who we are as a country and people is most evident when we face adversity. What will you choose to do?

Your calls about

• Treatment of constipation in an elderly man
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• A possible case of polymyalgia rheumatica as a caller indocates weakness in his arms and legs
• Covid-19: Should I travel to the UK?
• A man with neurodegenerative signs in his left arm