Anger elicits a robust physiological response that includes increases in heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration, but it can also affect attention and memory formation. Anger generally makes people more confident in the accuracy of their memories. Findings from a new study suggest that anger makes people more open to ...
When a case is uber complex, then we will revert to using an expert panel. Uber complex implies high levels of uncertainty. Somewhat like a wicked problem. Not a complex problem. The objective in using an expert panel is to go deeper in the analysis of the problem. Hosting a ...
Canadians need digital health records. This is an urgent need with COVID destroying people and the economy. Canada Health Infoway has spent over CDN$2.5B on this process. They have the software solutions that they could turn on to provide all Canadians with digital health records. But for some reason, that ...
The two drugs, called tocilizumab and sarilumab, are used to reduce inflammation in patients with arthritis. Hyper-inflammation, whereby the immune system goes into overdrive and destroys the organs, is how covid-19 tends to kill. The search for suitable anti-inflammatory drugs for covid-19 has already turned up one, dexamethasone. It is ...
IPUs are multidisciplinary teams that are structured to meet the needs of well-defined groups of patients, usually with similar conditions, over the full cycle of care. IPUs represent a profound organizational change in health care delivery and can enable better, more efficient care with shorter cycle times for groups of ...
Public Health Canada has a massive job ahead in distributing COVID 19 vaccines. The problem is that Public Health does not have the infrastructure to complete this task. And if they mess it up, then they hurt Canadians. In fact, some Canadians will likely die because of the delays. How ...
My wife asked me why Israel was being very successful with vaccine distribution compared to Canada. We have heard from our friends in Tel Aviv who have already received the vaccine. Their process of vaccine distribution is very well orchestrated. Our friends belong to one of 4 major HMOs ( ...
Bill was 65 years of age. He had lymphoma. He was treated with conventional R-CHOP but that did not work. He received a stem cell transplant in a teaching hospital in Ontario. That did not work. His Ontario doctor suggested a CAR-T procedure. This is not done in Ontario. So ...
After 3 years of investigations and consultations with many medical doctors for 2 big neurological problems including Alzheimers and hydrocephalus, the three highly respected specialists finally agreed to a zoom case conference. This was organized by RCM Health Consultancy. This case conference proved to be magical for the family. Raymond ...
Today, I and one of my staff who is a parent advocate had a call with a young psychiatrist. She was likely 38 years of age. I am old so that is young. My staff and I had spent a month working within this family system which consisted of 3 ...