Your QEII Staying healthy in mid-life and beyond For more than a dozen years, 82-year-old Barbara Mulrooney has been making a monthly visit to the QEII Health Sciences Centre — not to see her...
Your QEII The QEII’s reconstruction experts go beneath the surface of plastic surgery Dr. Jason Williams knows his job can be misunderstood, not only by patients, but by many primary care physicians, nurses and medical students, so he...
Your QEII Facing the fight In Atlantic Canada, it’s safe to say we’ve all been affected by cancer, whether through a personal battle or through a loved one’s...
Your QEII Art heals Mary Nowee and Meg McCallum met by chance at Not Me Art Gallery, owned by Mary and her husband Jerry. Meg’s visit to the gallery led to the...
Your QEII Guardians of the operating room Up to five times a day, a staff perfusionist like Roger Stanzel stands behind a control panel, busy with dials and digits, pumps and cords. Every...
Your QEII Shining a spotlight on thyroid cancer According to the Canadian Cancer Society, cases of thyroid cancer are on the rise. In fact, the incidences of this cancer have been steadily growing,...
Your QEII Porters with purpose: QEII porters play an important role in patient care Kevin Crain speeds into the porters’ break room in the basement of the QEII’s Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Building to take a breath for a...
Your QEII Residents at the QEII Each year, about 500 residents from Dalhousie University’s residency program train at the QEII Health Sciences Centre. Resident physicians are...
Your QEII Uncommon conditions: QEII’s collaborative response to treating Cushing’s disease Amy Stracey was a fit young woman in the Canadian Forces when a rare disease turned her life upside down. Thanks to her strong determination to...