Month: October 2016

Oct 25 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Making human genetics great again by being strongly together

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Stuart Nicholls is a Clinical Investigator and Methodologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Methodologist at the Ontario Child Health Support Unit (OCHSU). He recently attended...

Oct 23 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Mending the Souls of Our Seniors

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Daniel (Yiqiao) Wang University of Ottawa Class of 2019 “Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul”. Atul Gawande’s recently published book, Being Mortal, discusses the...

Oct 17 2016

Editors' Blog, Reflections

“The other side of silence”

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   Dear Linda, I have just read your book – or, should I...

Oct 16 2016

Student Humanities Blog

1:15 am

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Anonymous It’s 1:15 am as I write this. I’m tired. I’ve worked just under 17 hours today, but I can’t sleep. Too bad. I will start at 8 am again...

Oct 11 2016

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care, Reflections

Let’s not be our own worst enemies

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Bonnie Larson is Family Physician at Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS) Health Centre   Recently I called the emergency department from my outreach clinic in an urban shelter.  Near the...

Oct 01 2016

Reflections

Raising awareness of drug shortages in Canada – talking to residents

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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   Recently, I addressed first and second year residents in...