Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Why Virtual Care Is Gaining Popularity Online healthcare services are revolutionizing how Canadians access care. How Online Platforms Diagnose Menstrual Issues Most virtual platforms start with a comprehensive medical history form. Patients describe symptoms, cycle patterns, and other health concerns.

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

The Shift to Virtual Endocrinology Appointments: Many Canadians now prefer virtual healthcare. Register and Share Medical History You’ll fill out forms with past diagnoses, medications, lab results, and symptoms. If needed, new lab tests or prescriptions can be ordered immediately.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

Virtual visits can diagnose colds, flu , or allergies and help you manage symptoms at home. Despite those concerns, the authors of the study concluded, “Many patients and health professionals would consider using herbal medicine for acute bronchitis, if based on trustworthy advice and evidence-based guidelines, respectively.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? And when I asked the patient, well, what happened, the test was sprung on them.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider: And because it is so subjective and because we have these arbitrary rules around what the right patient with pain looks like, I think we really trap patients in a really difficult situation. One of the patients I spoke to really said this quite well. And yet very, very few patients are actually using those services.

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