Month: September 2016

Sep 30 2016

Editors' Blog

How to equip policymakers to advance the physical activity agenda

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   We publishing the wrong research and funding too many of the wrong...

Sep 21 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Treating children with ADHD: don’t underestimate the importance of adequate medication dosing

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Dr Rod Bergh is a general pediatrician who has practiced medicine since the early 1960s.   I have practiced Pediatrics for most of the 59 years since I graduated from...

Sep 18 2016

Student Humanities Blog

My first visit at a family shelter: a social pediatrics experience

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Daniel Bierstone University of Toronto Class of 2016 On the first day of my Social Paediatrics elective, I accompanied a nurse on a visit to a family shelter. I entered...

Sep 16 2016

Reflections

Our healthcare non-system

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   Some of the fundamental principles of our health-care system...

Sep 13 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Children’s Mental Health 1954-2016 – who cares?

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David Cawthorpe is a Professor (Adjunct) in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Alberta   By the end of this month the 22nd International Association for Child...

Sep 13 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A treatment for loneliness

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Iris Gorfinkel is a General Practitioner and Founder & Principal Investigator of PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ontario   I’d been attending this particular patient’s medical needs as her GP...

Sep 09 2016

Reflections

We need to protect our health care system

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   Our health care system is not the only, and...

Sep 07 2016

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care

Heat waves and the absence of evidence to guide adjustment of chronic medications

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Dr Genevieve Gabb is a Senior Staff Specialist in General Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia; she also works at the Veterans Heart Clinic, Repatriation General Hospital, Daw...

Sep 07 2016

Reflections

Keeping track of drug shortages in Canada

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Jacalyn Duffin is a hematologist and historian who holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen’s University   “I want to quit my chemo. I can’t take...