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  • Sore throat, or something more serious?

      Questions and Answers: 1.…

    by Sarah MacDougall, MPH; and Lorri Beatty, MD, FRCPC
    Posted January 27, 2023

  • COVID-19 shot or not for 5- to 11-year-olds?

    Questions And Answers: 1. How do you speak with parents about the COVID-19 vaccine? To begin the…

    by Kim Blake, MD and Dax Bourcier, MD, MSc
    Posted April 20, 2022

  • Common yet complicated: STIs in primary care

    Questions and Answers: 1. What is the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and…

    by Meghan Plotnick, MD, MSc, CCFP; Justin White, MD, FRCSC; and Kirk Magee, MD, MSc, FRCPC
    Posted January 19, 2022

  • A nightmare of an overdose

    Questions And Answers:   1. What is the initial emergency department management of an…

    by Graham Stevenson, MD; and Michael Clory, MDCM, MBA, FCFP(EM)
    Posted November 17, 2021

  • Oh, the pain!

    Questions and Answers: 1. What is going on? Emma appears to have trigeminal neuralgia (TN).…

    by Paul Bissonnette, BSc, MSc; and Samuel G Campbell, MB BCh, CCFP(EM), FCFP, Dip PEC(SA), FCCHL, FRCP(Edin)
    Posted November 15, 2021

  • Diet and deficiency: A Rickets case report

    Questions and Answers: 1. What should you never miss with this type of presentation? This was a…

    by Renée Kinden, MD, MSc and Jason Emsley, MSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC
    Posted August 16, 2021

  • Sudden hearing loss and its loud implications

    Questions and Answers: 1. What diagnoses should be considered? A high index of suspicion for…

    by Ms. Lydia Li, third year medical student and Vuthana Suon, MD, CCFP(EM)
    Posted August 12, 2021

  • All that’s red is not cellulitis

    Questions and Answers: 1. What are the key differences between the differential diagnoses…

    by Shweta Dhawan, MD candidate (Dalhousie Medicine, Class of 2020), MPH, HBSc, Stephen Miller, BSc, MD, MEd
    Posted April 08, 2021

  • Stroke… or a smoke?

    Questions and Answers: 1. What other diagnoses can mimic a stroke? A stroke, or cerebrovascular…

    by Laura Mitchell, MD, CCFP (EM) & Kiara Clory BKin, MSc, CSEP, CEP
    Posted April 08, 2021

  • You can’t spell syncope without “PE”

    Questions and Answers: 1. What diagnoses of syncope can be recognized by EKG? Bill’s presentation…

    by Sean Hurley, MASc, MD, Vuthana Suon MD, CCFP (EM)
    Posted November 27, 2020
                                                                                                                                                                       
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