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HEALTHING --  Drug demand is another curve to be flattened

BY ALAN TANIGUCHI (FGJ ‘20) --  There is a second curve that needs to be flattened during the COVID-19 pandemic — the steep increase in the demand for prescription drugs, a frenzy that has aggravated the daily drug shortages plaguing the healthcare system. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHY DEBATE --  COVID-19 visitor restrictions are isolating seniors

BY ALAN TANIGUCHI (FGJ ‘20) --  At age 103, Margaret Downey’s lifeline is the daily visits of relatives, such as granddaughter Mary-Alex Willer. Stringent visitation rules introduced to contain the spread of COVID-19 in seniors residences now means zero visitors to her Winnipeg nursing home and zero contact with family. On cue, Margaret has become more confused due to lack of stimulation and familiar faces. READ MORE. 

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NATIONAL POST --  Medical students running errands for health-care workers and their families

BY ALAN TANIGUCHI (FGJ ‘20) --  They may not yet be allowed on the front lines of Canada’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, but medical students in several provinces are still finding ways to pitch in. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHING -- Hashing out how to get weed into hospitals

BY ALAN TANIGUCHI (FGJ ‘20) --  Eva Cohen finally has things in place for her pharmacy to provide medicinal cannabis to patients at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital. It’s been more than a year since cannabis was legalized in Canada but for the director of pharmacy at CIUSSS Centre Ouest de l’Ile de Montreal, who oversees the Jewish General Hospital, it’s been a three-year project. Cohen’s efforts to make cannabis accessible began long before the product was declared legal. READ MORE.

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HEALTHY DEBATE --  What should you know about your electronic Ontario health record

BY ALAN TANIGUCHI (FGJ ‘20) -- 5 things you should know about your Ontario electronic health record. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHY DEBATE --  The time has come…health care makes the push to go digital

BY ALAN TANIGUCHI (FGJ ‘20) -- Dr. Glen Geiger paraphrases Victor Hugo: Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Geiger, chief medical information officer at The Ottawa Hospital, says that the health care system has finally reached the point where a shift to electronic medical records (EMRs) has become inevitable. READ MORE. 

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DALLAS MORNING NEWS --  When you’re grieving on Christmas, it’s OK to cry

BY ALAN TANIGUCHI (FGJ ‘20) -- Daniela Hudson is preparing to go on a Caribbean cruise with her two young children for the holidays. She didn’t always celebrate that way. The Dallas family used to spend time over Christmas in the snow. But that was before Hudson’s husband, David, died by suicide and their lives were forever changed. READ MORE.