Month: January 2017

Jan 31 2017

We need to move beyond God’s Healthcare Plan

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Cory Peel is a GP-Anesthesiologist who locums throughout British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon A couple of months ago I read Mike Hager’s article in the Globe and Mail...

Jan 20 2017

Reflections

Canadian healthcare in 2017: let’s aim for a smarter, more caring Canada

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Jesse Kancir is a resident in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and former Policy Adviser to Canadian federal Minister of Health, Jane Philpott ...

Jan 15 2017

Medical aid in dying

Visceral responses to law of the heart transgressed; we should not suppress them

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David Falk is a palliative care physician working in Calgary, Alberta Recently the president of one of the Quebec medical federations published a request to the public to give...

Jan 07 2017

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Innovations in primary care research

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The concept of the “Salon” is based on the tradition of European...

Jan 04 2017

Reflections

Drug shortages: resolutions for 2017

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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 The sixth full year of the global generic drug...