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House Calls, #984, October 7, 2025:City of Ottawa bureaucrats delve into physician recruitment plans. Their 10-point strategy leads me to ask if they even talked to front-line physicians who actively work to recruit new docs.
Your Calls and Comments: The City of Ottawa has presented a ten-point plan to try to recruit family doctors. Unfortunately, and it is evident that the bureaucrats have duplicated many of the hiring strategies already in place and will appoint of a Primary Care Recruitment and Retention Ambassador. I review these points and although the…
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House Calls, #983, September 28, 2025: Holy Confounders Batman!
A review of how our liver works to break down acetaminophen and how this differs in a fetus. I think it is important to understand how our bodies work, how the “poison” is always dependent on the dose, its frequency and duration of use. Also to be cognizant of how our state of health plays…
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House Calls, #980, September 14, 2025: To be silenced is not golden
The health claims about Beer Spas.Pancreatic islet cell transplant successful with genetic modification of transplanted cells to mitigate rejection. Your Calls and Comments: Playlist 1st segment Intro: For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield Outro: Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2 2nd segment Intro: Zombie – The Cranberries Outro: Sympathy for the Devil – Rolling Stones 3rd segment Intro: Civil War –…
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House Calls, #979, September 7, 2025: Awesome!
New hope for spinal cord injuries as an Israeli team plans to start human trials to transplant grown spinal cord replacements. A brain tumour was removed through the eye instead of opening up the skull to do so. Your Calls and Comments: Playlist 1st segment Intro: Big Man on Mulberry Street – Billy Joel Outro: Changes…
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House Calls, #978, July 6, 2025: Summer Breaks
A summer hiatus for the show returning after Labour Day. Today I talk about why after 35 years I have not yet decided to retire from family practice. I think that to do this show, you have to be a practicing physician. It is too easy to lose touch with nuances of medicine and science…
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House Calls, #977, June 29, 2025: The Invisible Ones
I went on a ride-along with the Ottawa Police Services and my opinion on what we need to do to help those that are suffering from abuse, addiction, and severe mental illness requires a rethink of the Band-Aid approaches we have taken to date. Your Calls and Comments: Playlist 1st segment Intro: Blow At High Dough…
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House Calls, #976, June 22, 2025: New support program for adolescents and young adults with cancer at the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre
The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre is now offering a new program to offer support to adolescents and young adults who are being treated for cancer. You can get more information by sending an email to AYAProgram@toh.ca Your Calls and Comments: Playlist 1st segment Intro: Bones – Imagine Dragons Outro: Theme from Superman – John Williams 2nd segment…
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House Calls, #975, June 15, 2025: Wait! There’s More!
Wait times in Canada remain a problem Ontario seems to be doing better than most with the introduction of private surgical centers for cataract surgery and hip and knee replacements. It is covered by the public system. Randall Denley: Ontario’s private eye-surgery experiment can give sight to the ideologically blindCanadians still waiting longer for surgeries…
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House Calls, #974, June 8, 2025: The basics can help you
A little bit of basic science can end up saving you cash and harm from dubious health claims and sales pitches. The McGill Office for Science and Society publishes many articles like these to help educate and explain the reasoning behind spurious and legitimate health claims. The measles outbreak continues apace in Ontario and Europe.…