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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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'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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Doctors' disbelief is a common response to rare disease
Laura Howson-Strong is an occupational therapist at Holland Bloorview who has worked with children with disabilities at two ends of the s...
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In CBC podcast, a dad searches for a cure that would allow his son to communicate
Unlocking Bryson's Brain is a new CBC podcast that follows a family's search for treatments that might reverse their son's rare genetic disorder.
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Diagnostic silos hold disability research back
Labels are 'hurting how we build health care for a lot of kids that have needs that cut across conditions.'
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'Spaces': a music video that makes room for disability
'I want disabled kids to say "Hey, I see myself in one of these people in this video."'
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It's the little things, like shoes
A year ago I bought my son two pairs of the same New Balance training shoe—one in white and one in black. A colleague had recommended i...
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Changing the stories we tell about disability and families
Recently BLOOM reported on research about the role of hope and the invisibility of dads in children's rehab. This was produced by Parenti...
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The tales we spin about disability
Beyond the Pale is a new memoir about raising a child with albinism. It's written by Emily Urquhart, a Canadian folklorist and writer who...
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