Wendy Levinson

Dec 25, 2024 | sasktoday.ca | Wendy Levinson

Canada signed the historic Paris Agreement in 2015 and has since taken some significant steps toward addressing climate change, promising to be a global climate leader. While there has been much debate in Canada about the role of fuel sources and transportation in lowering our carbon footprint, there has been very little discussion of the impact of health care.

Nov 29, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Muhamad Aly Rifai |Neil Anand |Dawn Baker |Wendy Levinson

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs focus, attention, and behavioral control. ADHD hinders and compromises major life activities. Initially considered exclusively a disorder afflicting children and adolescents, it is now widely accepted that ADHD continues into adulthood, impacting the lives of those plagued by this impairment and disability.

Aug 19, 2024 | kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Leslie Mattson |Wendy Levinson |Christine Soong

In most physician prosecutions for treating pain or addiction, there is never any actual evidence of criminal intent. Just the nebulous argument that a doctor “ignored the risk of overdose,” “ignored the risk of addiction,” or performed “an insufficient medical exam.” I have a big problem with these because the doctor didn’t ignore anything in about 80 percent of the cases I evaluated. Indeed, the DEA had to lie to a doctor to get a prescription.

Aug 3, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Wendy Levinson |Christine Soong |J. Leonard Lichtenfeld |Sarah Alnaher

Today, I want to talk about how creative humans are. As physicians, we encounter patients with ideas that amaze us every day and make our lives interesting, to say the least. The best ones are often the elderly, who have years of experience and unique ways of getting things done that differ greatly from the current generation. I came across an elderly patient in the office who had previously been diagnosed with ADHD but did not take his medication because he felt he did not need it.

Jul 17, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Wendy Levinson

In the US, approximately 8% of carbon emissions come from the health care system.1 The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference called for countries to measure health care–related carbon emissions and attain a net-zero emission state, in which carbon dioxide emissions are not greater than carbon dioxide reductions, by 2050.2 The US Department of Health and Human Services called for health care organizations to decrease carbon emissions by 50% by 2030.3 However, these calls to action are...