1: Heading the Ball, Harming the Brain?

A case-control study looked at the impact of soccer heading on brain health in 302 amateur soccer players. Players exposed to heading showed significantly higher post-match blood biomarkers of neural damage, including S100B and p-tau217, compared with unexposed players. Video monitoring also confirmed that high-impact headers were associated with greater increases in these biomarkers. The findings suggest that even amateur-level soccer heading may affect neural integrity, at least in the short term.

2: Clearing Acne and Concerns about Growth

A cross-sectional study of ~380K individuals with acne found that isotretinoin treatment (Accutane) during adolescence was not associated with shorter adult height. Linear growth remained unaffected across a variety of doses and ages at treatment initiation. While Accutane is known to carry other side effects, these results may help ease concerns about growth impairment in adolescents with acne.

Tax season is over… so why does it still feel frustrating?

For many physicians, tax season brings the same feeling every year:

Shock.

Confusion.

Disappointment.

The numbers come in, and somehow the tax bill is higher than expected again.

Or maybe you received a refund, which feels great at first, until the next question hits:

"Did I overpay taxes all year?"

Too often, accountants simply file the return, send over the numbers, and move on. No proactive advice. No strategy. No explanation of how taxes could have been reduced before year-end.

The biggest tax savings don't happen during tax season. They happen through proactive planning throughout the year.

At RX Dental Accountants, we specialize in helping physicians across Canada reduce taxes with tailored strategies designed specifically for your industry.

Here are 3 of the most commonly missed or misunderstood deductions we saw physicians miss for the 2026 tax season that just finished.

1. Medical Expenses

Many physicians pay for medical expenses personally, assuming they will create tax savings.

But in many cases, they don't.

Medical expenses only reduce your tax bill if they exceed approximately 3% of your net income, which often is not the case for higher-income earners like physicians.

One overlooked strategy is setting up a Health Spending Account (HSA) through your corporation. This allows eligible medical expenses to be paid more tax-efficiently by the business, without high fixed monthly fees of a traditional group benefit plan. Example: An Ontario physician earning $200,000 annually with $5,000 of medical expenses could save approximately $2,400 in taxes by using a properly structured Health Spending Account instead of paying personally.

2. Child Care Expenses

Child care expenses are another common tax deduction that most physicians know about, but often leave money on the table.

These expenses generally must be claimed by the lower-income spouse, must have earned income (not dividends) and is limited to 2/3 of income. Often, we see one spouse stays home or earns minimal income, meaning the deduction cannot be claimed at all or is severely limited.

Example: A physician with 2 children under age 7 may be eligible to claim up to $16,000 of child care expenses. Here are 2 examples of poor tax planning that can be avoided:

With proper planning, maximizing this deduction with 2 children means $8,640 in tax savings.

3. Investment Fees

This is one of the most commonly missed deductions we see, especially among physicians managing their own investments.

Many brokerages provide tax slips, but do not provide a full tax package for the year that shows how much in fees they paid. As a result, many physicians forget to claim them, or don't realize they are deductible at all.

Example: A physician with a $250,000 non-registered investment portfolio paying approximately $2,500 annually in investment fees could generate roughly $1,350 in tax savings by properly claiming those expenses.

Small Missed Deductions Add Up Quickly

Let's total the examples above:

Medical Expenses: $2,400
Child Care Expenses: $8,640
Investment Fees: $1,350

That's $12,390 in potential tax savings from just 3 commonly missed deductions. 

Frustrated with your accountant? Now is the best time to switch!

At RX Dental Accountants, we go beyond basic tax filing. We build a relationship with you, get to know your business and family, and provide personalized advice that can save you thousands in taxes every single year.

On average, our clients save approximately $30,410 in taxes each year through proactive tax strategies tailored to physicians.

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1: 🇨🇦 Alberta’s separation chatter just moved from background noise to ballot question. Premier Danielle Smith says Albertans will vote Oct. 19 on whether the province should remain in Canada or begin the legal steps toward a future independence referendum. Support for leaving Canada is still below 50%, but anger over federal energy policy and Ottawa’s influence has pushed separatist sentiment further into the mainstream than many expected. Critics are already calling it Canada’s Brexit moment. Even if nothing comes of it, the vote turns a long-running grievance into something with a date attached.

2: ✈️ Canada is tightening Ebola screening at airports in response to the ongoing outbreak in parts of Africa. Officials say enhanced measures are now in place at major ports of entry, including added screening questions about recent travel to affected regions and possible symptoms, along with more on-the-ground public health staff to flag higher-risk travellers. Health authorities stress the risk to Canadians remains low, and there are still no confirmed Ebola cases in the country. The move is precautionary — meant to catch potential cases early rather than respond to widespread transmission. In other words, border health is doing what it’s supposed to do: worry before the rest of us have to.

3: 💉 Misinformation has found a new target in long-standing newborn care: the vitamin K shot. More Canadian parents are refusing the newborn injection, a decades-old recommendation to prevent rare but potentially life-threatening bleeding. Since newborns naturally have low stores of vitamin K, this well-studied intervention gives vital protection for their first few weeks, lowering the risk of a complication that’s been on medicine’s radar since 1894. Refusal reasons vary, but pediatricians are hearing familiar online concerns: ingredients, jaundice, and a long-debunked link to childhood cancer. Oral vitamin K is an option, but CPS says it’s less effective and requires multiple follow-up doses. Another routine prevention turned trust exercise.

4: 💗 New Statistics Canada data shows breast cancer rates aren’t landing evenly across Canada. From 2010 to 2020, invasive breast cancer incidence was higher in rural regions of Quebec, Ontario, and the Prairies, plus certain urban centres with large immigrant and racialized populations. Experts point to uneven mammography access, long travel times, and regional differences in screening programs — though better screening can also make incidence look higher by catching more cases. A recent CMAJ study projected breast cancer to make up 26% of new cancer diagnoses among women in Canada in 2026, and most provinces and territories have moved mammogram access closer to age 40. The national trend is useful, but the local gaps are where the story gets harder.

1 in 4: the median estimate from a survey of physicians that today’s preservation methods could still keep enough brain structure intact after death that a person could potentially be brought back to life in the future. For a technique that has never successfully revived anyone, that’s a surprisingly non-zero level of confidence.

1.2 billion: how many people worldwide are living with mental disorders, according to a new study, up 95.5% since 1990. Anxiety and depression remain the most common, with the burden especially high among ages 15–19 — a vulnerable window when brains, identities, and social lives are still very much under construction, made even more strained by pandemic-era isolation, disruption, and stress.

$640K USD: the expected price tag on Ferrari's 1st-ever EV, the Luce, arriving in the US in spring 2027 with 1,035 horsepower and the biggest trunk Ferrari has ever built — dropping just as Lamborghini scrapped its EV plans entirely and Ferrari finds out if the Ferraristi can love a battery-powered Prancing Horse.

🥖 Make: this English muffin bread loaf. It’s a no-fuss, 1 bowl bake that gives you all the nooks-and-crannies of a classic English muffin without any shaping or flipping.

📖 Read: The Walrus’ piece on a writer who spent months with an AI companion, trying to build a friendship that ended up feeling increasingly hollow and more isolating than being alone.

💰Save: on a roundup of Canada-wide online deals covering home, tech, fashion, and everyday essentials as retailers cycle through limited-time discounts and promos. 

🏞️ Visit: a mix of summer escapes, from quiet Greek islands and Canadian lake towns to Dolomite hikes and Arctic wildlife trips — options for when you want something a bit cooler, slower, or just less crowded than the usual beach-and-resort circuit.

🧠 Learn: how ceramide-based skincare fits into atopic dermatitis management — a free, 15-minute Mainpro+ accredited case-based program exploring why some patients stay symptomatic despite prescription therapy.

📺 Watch: a quick history of Venice, detailing how people fleeing invasion in the 6th century built a city on wooden piles in a swampy lagoon and slowly turned mud and marsh into an unlikely floating trade hub that is still standing 1500 years later.

A completely unscientific guide to where your colleagues are going this summer. We asked AI. Here’s what came back.

🫀 Cardiology
Books a wellness retreat in Tulum, Mexico. Spends 6 hours optimizing heart rate variability, then checks Apple Watch data every 3 minutes “just to relax.”

🦴 Orthopedics
Banff with a full ski kit. Hasn’t met a slope they didn’t want to fix, fracture, or conquer. Luggage weighs more than a femoral rod.

🧠 Psychiatry
A silent retreat in Tuscany. Finally, a room where nobody talks. Spends the whole time analyzing the group dynamics of strangers at dinner.

👶 Pediatrics
Disney World. Suggested it. Their own kids are home with a sitter. They’re having the time of their life in the character meet-and-greet line.

🏥Emergency Medicine
Atlantis Paradise Island. Zero plan. Thrives immediately. Within 12 minutes of arrival, is somehow coordinating lost tourists, locating a first aid kit, and mentally mapping the fastest route to the nearest hospital “just in case.”

🧴 Dermatology
Santorini (but in the shade). Books the most beautiful destination, then spends the whole trip reapplying SPF 100 and gently judging poolside strangers’ sunscreen technique.

🩺Family Medicine
Prince Edward Island. Takes a family vacation and ends up doing informal triage in the hotel lobby between meals.

🧪 Pathology
London. Enjoys a perfect vacation… from a distance. Has strong opinions about hotel cleanliness based on what they would’ve seen under a microscope.

Wherever you're headed this summer, you've earned it. Don't check your pager.

First clue: Most people in the hospital have them dangling on lanyards or reels

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