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Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in retinal imaging has evolved rapidly over the last twenty years. Along with these changes in technology, the nomenclature and relationships between healthcare professionals and patients have changed as well. How to translate the complex language of the field such that patients can understand it better is the focus of this paper.

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I’m a palliative care and hospice doctor focusing my clinical care on families near the end of life.  It has been a great privilege to be welcomed to the bedside of so many seriously ill and dying patients to care for them and their families. Pursuing geriatrics and palliative care were not always met with welcome sentiments from my peers. “You’re going to take care of sick and dying patients.” “It is so depressing.” My experience is that geriatrics and palliative care are a little like peeking through the old skeletal keyhole into a living room.  You have to get up real close to peek inside and if you dare to go through and enter in, a whole new world opens. It is often a sacred space.  A space for a team of professionals caring together.

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In our current environment of value based care and payment models, greater emphasis is placed on completing evidence based, routine screening tests for patients. While there is clear preventive health benefit, population based initiatives may overlook opportunities to prepare individual patients for possible abnormal results. Efforts to manage expectations, address health literacy gaps and ensure emotional support may help limit unnecessary distress and suffering during the screening process.

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Detailing the moving story of his interactions with a patient and her significant other, Ahmed Imcaoudene's Goodwin Prize-winning essay on the Healer Role was selected for presentation in McGill University's Physicianship curriculum. It was also read at the 4th International Congress on Whole Person Care on October 22nd, 2021, introducing profound discussions on compassion in healthcare.