As December comes to a close we often find ourselves looking back at the achievements and successes of the past year. This is a season of reflection, celebration, friendship and family.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio
“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.”
NBC’s Dr. Kildare show-doctors in the 1960s
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
~William Osler
We need a bold solution to a major health care problem: Almost 20% of the acute care beds in Kingston are unavailable for admission of new patients. How can this be? How could 20% of the beds in the SELHIN’s only tertiary care hospital have gone missing? Why have I not heard about it? Why is this not in the newspapers? What happened to these beds? Are they closed because of construction? Is there an epidemic? Has hospital funding been cut? The answer in each case is, “No”.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines privacy as: A state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people: she returned to the privacy of her own home or The state of being free from public attention:a law to restrict newspapers' freedom to invade people’s privacy This blog is written to remind doctors, doctors in training, secretaries and others who have access to health care records about the risks of inappropriately accessing health care records.