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The empowered woman who couldn't be an empowered patient
Type: Story
She’s a powerhouse, this woman: respected, high energy, award-winning tv producer. She researches each of her varied subjects extensively and always digs for the most unusual story lines. In her leisure time, she takes delight in plotting...
I realize I'm one of them.
Type: Story
I just realized: I’m one of those people I read about. People who willfully lead unhealthy lifestyles. The ones who could (and by all accounts really should) control and be on top of things like taking their meds, exercising regularly, eating...
Creativity and older adults: finding the artist inside each of us
Type: Story
It was a day of music, arts and drama, of passion and compassion, presented by the Baycrest Social Workers,  entitled, Bringing Creativity into Clinical Practice with Older Adults.  Talk about brininging creativity into a Clinic Day: on...
When is an ice cream label a health literacy tool
Type: Forum topic
Health Literacy Month had me looking into health literacy assessment and screening tools. Beyond the directive to write for Grade (6,7,8) reading level, there are many tools utilized by academics that the rest of us may or may not have access to or...
Change your face.
Type: Story
It has nothing to do with plastic surgery or cosmetics, but rather echoes the sentiment of this story from the Irish potato famine:   It was hard times in the Brooke family. The famine robbed them of food and work.
The stories of my garage.
Type: Story
Friendship: a tale of love, loss and learning
Type: Story
My Very Best Friend (VBF) works in Orillia, a mid-size city in Southern Ontario. She's a celebrity there – regularly hailed in the streets. Every other person knows her, and they all love her. It’s amazing! VBF isn’t a politician...
By gosh I have good healthcare professionals.
Type: Story
Having developed Person Centered Patient Education Guidelines, there are those who may think they’re born of bad experiences. Not so.
Kathy Kastner's Person-Centered Patient-Education Best-Practice Guidelines (what a mouthful ;)
Type: Forum topic
I developed these based not on the many and varied interpretations of Person-Centred or Patient-Education,  but on the commonalities of needs as humans.  The intention is to foster satisfying and meaningful collaboration between patient...
Lost in translation?
Type: Story
How perfect and astutely said, and by a doctor no less: Jeffrey Borkan, in his intro to the book 'Patients and Doctors: Life-changing stories from Primary Care', points out that "Every encounter between doctor and patient is a cross-cultural...