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Law and Disorder: Navigating medicolegal Issues (Part 1)

Law and Disorder: Navigating medicolegal Issues (Part 1)

by Max Zworth | Apr 17, 2025 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, mental health, Patient Advocacy

On October 17, 2013, 27-year-old Philisha Sutherland was found at home by her parents—lethargic, weak, and slurring her speech. EMS transported her to Sault Area Hospital, where she was assessed by the attending emergency physician, Dr. Booth. Dr. Booth performed a...
Abortion Care in the Emergency Department

Abortion Care in the Emergency Department

by Pascale King, Samara Adler | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, OBGYN, Patient Advocacy

Abortion history in Canada is Complex. Countless hardships were overcome on the long journey to the legalization of medical induced abortion (IA). This blog post will focus on what you need to know as an acute care provider. Context: Unsafe abortions are the leading...
Psychology and Science of Waiting

Psychology and Science of Waiting

by Omar Anjum, Lucy Karp | Jun 8, 2023 | emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy

Preamble: This Grand Rounds was inspired in part by a conversation I had with Dr. Andrew Petrosoniak during my time at St. Michael’s Hospital where we discussed the growing concern of excessive ED wait times and the limited concerted effort on addressing the waiting...
Human Trafficking in the Emergency Department

Human Trafficking in the Emergency Department

by Lindsay Cheskes, Alex Coutin | Nov 11, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Main page, Patient Advocacy

The United Nations (UN) defines human trafficking (HT) as “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, or deception for the purpose of...
What you write matters! How your notes can seem offensive or judgemental to patients (and you didn’t know it).

What you write matters! How your notes can seem offensive or judgemental to patients (and you didn’t know it).

by Hans Rosenberg | Mar 30, 2021 | Commentary, Featured, Medical Education, Patient Advocacy

Did you know that your patients could be upset with you and your care AFTER you see them? You’re wondering how could this happen, I was friendly, polite and approachable when I saw them. It turns out, in this new world of electronic medical records (EMR) with all...
We Need to Talk: Communicating with patients

We Need to Talk: Communicating with patients

by Erica Lee, Kate O'Connell | Nov 21, 2019 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy

During your medical training, how many times did someone watch you talk to a real patient? What about explaining their diagnosis? Or how to take their medications? Have you had a conversation with a patient and felt that you weren’t “speaking the same language”? Good...
Early Pregnancy Loss: A Patient-Centered Care Model

Early Pregnancy Loss: A Patient-Centered Care Model

by Leo Carroll, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | May 9, 2019 | Grand Round Summaries, OBGYN, Patient Advocacy

This article discusses the patient perspective of early pregnancy loss in the ED. We will define the quality gap as it pertains to ED care for patients with early pregnancy loss. We will then look at patient-centered communication strategies for counseling and...
Consent for resuscitation of incapable patients in the Emergency Department

Consent for resuscitation of incapable patients in the Emergency Department

by Michael Wong, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Apr 18, 2019 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy, Resuscitation

In the second part of this two-part series, Dr. Michael Wong discusses the process for obtaining consent for incapable persons in the Emergency Department. For a review of a rational and patient-centered approach to difficult discussions in the Emergency Department...
A How-to Guide to Goals of Care Discussions in the Emergency Department

A How-to Guide to Goals of Care Discussions in the Emergency Department

by Michael Wong, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | Apr 11, 2019 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy, Resuscitation

In this two-part series, Dr. Michael Wong begins by reviewing a rational and patient-centered approach to difficult discussions in the Emergency Department around goals of care and resuscitation. In part two, we discuss the process for obtaining consent for incapable...
Polypharmacy, Prescribing, & Deprescribing in the ED

Polypharmacy, Prescribing, & Deprescribing in the ED

by Brittany Ellis, Richard Hoang | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy, Uncategorized

Care of the Elderly is an ever-growing, important, and prevalent part of an Emergency Physician’s repertoire of skills. With increasing numbers of elderly patients presenting to EDs across Canada, we look to discuss the issue of polypharmacy, prescribing, and...
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