Research: I've Googled various key word combinations trying to find out what the regulations are for scheduling and working hour limits / what a typicaly work week looks like for attending physicians at Canadian hospitals looks like, but all I'm getting is articles about sleep deprivation during residency.

Setting: "Now" (I don't have my ( Read more... )

I'm planning to write two characters who live in Toronto and use wheelchairs (they can walk, but it's safer if they don't try). One of them also has a (sapient-but-pretending-not-to-be-to-regular-people, magical, well-behaved and responsive to his person's verbal instructions) cat, who prefers to accompany her when she's out and about. What ( Read more... )

Hi! So, before posting this, I googled for "medical social worker", "hospital social worker", "medicine social work case studies" and variations thereof, and found a lot of informative hits. However, most of them are American results, while my story takes place in Canada, and also the information on most of them is pretty broad and no longer ( Read more... )

Search terms used: hypoglycemic seizure duration, emergency response hypoglycemic seizure, emt response hypocglycemic seizure, emergency response non-epileptic seizure

Setting: present day

My character is a middle aged man in Canada in the present day. In the scene I'm trying to write right now, he's experiencing a hypoglycemic seizure for the first ( Read more... )

The story is set in present, Canada. While the MC has telepathic abilities, the show itself isn't  sci-fi. The main character is a male in mid twenties, working as a paramedic. He suffers a head injury after being hit by a baseball bat on the head. He loses consciousness at the scene and suffers a grand mal seizure during the drive to the hospital ( Read more... )

A head nurse, or supervising nurse, in a hospital? I was thinking it might be 'ma Soeur', but I'm not certain if that could be applied to someone who is not also a member of a holy order.

Idées?

Place: Northern British Columbia, in a mid-sized city. Beyond that, location not specified.
Time: Now, more or less. Contemporary ( Read more... )

I have this story in mind involving a character that is an alcoholic and one that is an anorectic, both males and between the ages of 16-19, in modern times, and from the united states.

my question is, are there any types of rehab facilities that would house both these types of cases? or a more general type of facility that these youths could go to ( Read more... )

So, I have a character, Chas, who gets brought in to the emergency room by his lover, Zladko after some unfortunate events. (Basically, Zladko turned into a monster whne he lost ccontrol of his powers and "claimed" chas, which led to injuries ( Read more... )

I believe this question is not country specific. Basically, one of the protagonists finds himself in intensive care after an explosion where he received abdominal injuries ( Read more... )