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CBC NEWS -- I never thought I would be deployed for the Red Cross to help with Canada's shortage of doctors

BY ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) -- In May, when massive levels of snowmelt caused unprecedented flooding and an evacuation of the town of Hay River, N.W.T., it was no surprise to me that the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) was deployed to support evacuees. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHY DEBATE -- Medicine vs. Journalism? Navigating the tension between two fields

BY MONICA KIDD (FGJ ‘22) AND ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) -- It’s no secret that medicine and journalism are often at odds. Coverage of research findings sometimes lead patients to request a new treatment, or to question an established one, prompting physicians to grumble about sensationalism and the long and rocky road from single study to clinical guideline. READ MORE. 

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CBC NEWS THE WORLD THIS WEEKEND -- DOCTOR SHORTAGE 

BY ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) – There are two words that make a small community in Canada nervous and those words are “only doctor” – because what happens when something happens to your only doctor – especially when so many health systems are already dealing with understaffed emergency rooms and a shortage of family doctors? Vancouver physician, Anthony Fong was just that  – the only doctor on Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. He answered the call for a doctor and travelled to Fogo Island in July. And then what? LISTEN HERE. 

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CBC -- For two weeks I was Fogo Island's only doctor

BY ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) -- We’ve heard about the shortage of family doctors in Canada and a second crisis of understaffed emergency rooms across the country. But what happens when your emergency doctor is your family doctor? READ MORE.

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HEALTHY DEBATE -- ‘Medical gaslighting’ harming long-COVID patients

BY ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) -- It’s not uncommon for (long-COVID) patients who are being gaslit to wonder whether they are crazy – they’ve never had anybody acknowledge that their symptoms are real,” says Ric Arseneau, a Coquitlam-based internal medicine physician and clinical professor at the University of British Columbia. READ MORE. 

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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE -- RESPONDING TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE

BY ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) -- CAEP members across Canada feel compelled to contribute to the humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine. The big question is: How? READ MORE.

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THE CONVERSATION -- Canada needs to be as welcoming to Afghan refugees as it is to Ukrainians

BY ANTHONY FONG and ZAMIR SAAR (FGJ ‘22) -- “When we talk about systemic racism, we’re not talking about what the government intended; we’re looking at outcomes — and the outcomes speak for themselves,” says Sharry Aiken, a law professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. Since Afghanistan was forcibly returned to Taliban rule nine months ago, Canada has approved only 13,000 Afghan refugee applications for immigration. READ MORE. 

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HEALTHY DEBATE -- Lack of government supports leaves Ukrainian refugees at risk of human trafficking in Canada

BY ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) -- Facebook forums are kind of like the Wild West – people are hoping it all works out,” says Zack Nethery of Carleton Place, Ont., of Ukrainians trying to find refuge in Canada. READ MORE.