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Disabled parenting is 'messier,' and that's a good thing
'Needing care does not make you incapable of providing care. It doesn’t somehow make you a worse parent if you need help.'
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Christa Couture sees beauty in resilience
Photos by Jen SquiresI was scrolling through Twitter when my eyes locked on an image of a pregnant woman. Taken from the side, her belly ...
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Think other special-needs parents have it 'together?' Think again
When Autism Comes To Roost: A Family's Journey From Denial to Acceptance is a new parent memoir out next week. Canadian psychologist Alic...
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Two girls, two medical conditions, one family
In 2016, the Mills family adopted a six-year-old girl with spina bifida and kidney disease from China. This past September, they brought home a young Chinese teen with the same conditions. We talked about the joys and challenges.
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U of T docs say ridicule, yelling, rude emails a part of their world
A new study in Academic Medicine looks at uncivil behaviour among doctors—from eye rolling and open ridicule to yelling, throwing objects, sending unkind e-mails and posting disparaging social media comments. University of Toronto researchers interviewed 49 doctors who are faculty in U of T’s…
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Restraints, isolation routine for some disabled students in Manitoba
A survey of Manitoba parents that revealed frequent school use of physical restraints and isolation rooms for students with disabilities is 'hugely problematic' and 'shocking,' a researcher says.
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A pharmacist who burnt out has a new mission: mental health
Amy Hu is a pharmacist at Holland Bloorview who became interested in children's rehab after doing a student placement here. She's been wi...
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Mailbag: A reader responds to a post on disability, friendship
A couple of weeks ago Meriah Main, a nurse in Vancouver, responded to a piece I wrote on friendship and youth with disabilities in the Hu...
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'Foolishness' is a critical part of rehab
The foolishness of clowns, their vulnerability and willingness to fail, produces 'joy without demands' in hospitalized children, write the Holland Bloorview authors of a new Journal of Medical Humanities paper. Yet clowning is devalued in medicine.
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A disabled sister is at the heart of a memoir about how we train doctors
'When I look at myself in the hospital as a clinician, all the things I think I do exceptionally well, my rarest gifts, they're all things I learned from her.'
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