I wish I was going to be in Toronto today! The Joint Centre for Bioethics, at the University of Toronto, is hosting a seminar to celebrate National Health Ethics Week (NHEW). The seminar title is: Public Health Ethics: What Next? If you’ll be Toronto today, this Read More …

When my mother was facing her own end-of-life (EoL), over 10 years ago in Montréal (Canada), she had a fairly clear idea of what she did – and didn’t – want in terms of medical interventions. I’d gone back to school to complete a Masters’ Read More …

Two of my favourite authors in the healthcare sphere are Drs. Atul Gawande and Abraham Verghese. Not only for their valuable insight into the profession of medicine, but also for the very human – and markedly different – approaches which they take to their topics. Read More …