LIVING WELL INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CENTRE
OFFICE VISIT HEALTH AND SAFETY RULES
Dr. Patriquin or your health care provider has decided that they need to see you in person to provide your health care and you are scheduled for an in-person visit at the Living Well office. To protect your …
WELCOME BACK TO LIVING WELL INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CENTRE!
PLEASE READ AS WE ARE OPENING IN ALIGNMENT WITH STRICT PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATIONS
We know that the past three months have been a challenging time for our community. We have missed you and we are so happy to be able to reopen Living …
Please see the following link to CFPC Webinar on Physician Health, Well-being and Burnout (Jan 2020 CFPC)
https://vimeo.com/386260419/3a08b245ac
If you are a health care professional interested in stress reduction, mindfulness, resilience and recovery or just simply want to build your ability …
LOVE BEGINS WITH THE LETTER C
BY DR. MARIA PATRIQUIN MD CCFP
( published in APPC)
I send my Christmas cards after Christmas. I write about love after Valentines Day and so it goes. Let’s celebrate “love month”. Much has been written this month bestowing the health, emotional and longevity…
There is much to be grateful for as we enter a new week with so much fear, confusion and vulnerability. Gratitude may be harder to access than soc…
Thank you for your patience as we try and navigate this journey together. It is unchartered territory and things are rapidly changing on a daily basis thus necessitating more change on our part.
The clinic will remain closed. Dr Patriquin will ONLY see urgent patients on a case by case basis who…
We PHYSICALLY DISTANCE BECAUSE WE ARE SOCIALLY CONNECTED...
WE DO NOT NEED SOCIAL DISTANCING
WE NEED PHYSICAL DISTANCING
Our natural compassion instincts must stay intact and strong so that we continue to maintain critical physical distancing and thus save lives. I heard way too many comments…
A SHORT SURVIVAL GUIDE TO COVID-19 by DR. MARIA PATRQIUIN MD CCFP FCCP
There is much to be grateful for as we enter a new week with so much fear, confusion and vulnerability. Gratitude may be harder to access than social media would suggest or imply so I am going to help guide you throu…
While many Americans continue to be in denial about this pandemic you only have to read this plea from a physician on the front lines to understand the gravity of the situation. Life will not be the same post COVID-19!
“Listen to the doctors. Today we had a sobering webinar with input from physic…
Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be…
I am hosting and co-chairing the 2020 Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference at the Halifax Convention Center along with my colleagues Drs. Sunderji and Sampali. This conference represents an important contribution towards strengthening our network and community of men…
It's that time again when we verge on the end of a year and envision a new and fresh start to another year to come. Dr. Patriquin's Stress Reduction Class has now run for 8 consecutive years. No diagnosis necessary merely that of being human. Learn how to cultivate more self awareness and identify…
Grateful for the seat at a table of like minded advocates and change makers who share an unwavering desire to create meaningful movement to change mental health care in Canada. See www.sharedcare.ca and watch out for the 2020 Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference that I am ho…
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On Apr 11, 2019, at 8:40 PM, Lesley MacGregor my dear colleague, NP now running the INSPIRE program wrote:
Other than Nova Scotia - I have never been required to identify a “collaborating physician” as part of my licensing. It was a huge hurdle to me 3 years ago when we arrived a…
Primary Care Transformation: A collaborative practice tool kit provides practical information, examples, insights from the experiences of Nova Scotia doctors, implications and critical reflection questions to su…
I have been fortunate now to have presented this talk at the Family Medicine Forum Toronto 2018. On Valentines day 2019 I presented the same talk for the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University. The talk will be given at Dalhousie once again to faculty and the reading club in April of…
Children are the original mindfulness practitioners. I remind each adult that denies their capacity that they began life with innate ability to be mindful. To understand what role mindfulness serves requires consideration of the inherent nature and capacities we were born with. Take a moment to cons…
