By Bhavana Gopinath – Kitchissippi resident Rebecca Hollingsworth describes herself as “lucky.” Diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2016, she learned that same week that her younger sister, Mary Ellen Hughson, also had the same disease. After being treated for breast cancer and watching her sister go through […]
What does the future of health care look like in Ottawa? It’s not just a topic for medical professionals, futurists, and tech start-ups, it’s an exciting conversation that is happening right now with ordinary citizens, all levels of government, and staff and neighbours of The Ottawa Hospital. The […]
Dr. Ian Stiell leads The Ottawa Hospital Emergency Medicine Research Group and is an active emergency room physician and clinical epidemiologist. His research has changed the way emergency room doctors across the world diagnose certain patients. Funnily enough, it almost didn’t happen. His mother thought he was too […]
Medical professionals sometimes refer to the “pillars” of cancer treatment. Until recently there have been four pillars: surgery, radiotherapy, traditional chemotherapy, and precision therapy. For thousands of years, surgery was the only pillar supporting cancer care. Radiotherapy, or radiation therapy, which uses high-energy particles to destroy cancer cells […]
The international medical community was turned upside down in 1895. German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was researching the electric discharge process in diluted gas when he stumbled upon a new kind of ray. He discovered its potential medical use when he made an image of his wife’s hand on […]
Dr. Lauralyn McIntyre is a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program and a physician in Critical Care at The Ottawa Hospital. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. One main area of interest ties all of these together: […]
Dr. Guy J. Hébert, Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH), hesitates when he describes himself and his fellow emergency department medical staff as “adrenaline junkies.” It’s best to describe them as professionals who thrive on highly organized chaos. “Emergency medicine has a […]
June 13 – 17 was the annual Staff Appreciation Week at The Ottawa Hospital and Gabriel Pizza was on hand to serve up some thank yous! A big thank to Gabriel Pizza, who donated 5,000 pizzas for the event. All photos by Ellen Bond
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