Emergency-room doctors in Montreal are accusing the Quebec Health Department of “cannibalizing” scarce ER resources as the government shifts more family physicians to so-called super clinics.
Continue Reading → ERs in crisis as resources diverted to family medicine ‘super clinics’
Health Minister Gaétan Barrette’s insistence that the McGill University Health Centre redirect patients closer to where they live rather than treating them at the MUHC risks violating the Quebec Health and Social Services Act, two legal experts charged Tuesday.
Continue Reading → Redirecting patients to other hospitals is ‘probably illegal’: experts
There is a disturbing link between depression and death in older, frail patients who’ve had heart valves replaced, according to an international Montreal-based study.
Continue Reading → Depression is deadly for elderly after heart valve surgery: Montreal study
Employees of the Centre d’hébergement Denis-Benjamin-Viger in Île-Bizard plan to stage a demonstration Monday outside the long-term-care facility to protest against staff cuts and building problems they say are significantly harming the quality of life of the elderly residents.
Continue Reading → Conditions criticized at care centre for the elderly in Île-Bizard
Former hockey player and Montrealer Dean Stock – a young father who was very public about his ALS diagnosis in December 2014 and made it his mission to advance research into treatments for the deadly neuromuscular disorder – lost his battle with the disease on Friday at the age of 39.
Continue Reading → Dean Stock: Montreal crusader for ALS research dies at 39