Search results for: Kirsten Patrick

Jun 03 2020

Editors' Blog

Let statements of solidarity on social media not be the end of allyship

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I and other white allies need to hashtag less, listen more, do more and talk about it less, and be willing to just sit with a whole lot more discomfort.

Apr 05 2020

COVID-19, Editors' Blog

Far away

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I had spent a long time explaining to my mom that, because she has heart failure and a pacemaker and is also the eyes for my all-but-blind dad, she really...

Aug 16 2019

Editors' Blog

Let’s see a concrete plan to implement universal pharmacare in Canada

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Yesterday an open letter addressed to the leaders of Canada’s federal political parties was published calling for a firm commitment to implementing a universal, comprehensive,...

May 29 2018

Editors' Blog, Reflections

Why I called André Picard’s column on mental illness a nothingburger

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   A week ago, André Picard published a column in the Globe and Mail entitled “How many people actually suffer from mental illness?”...

Mar 21 2018

Doctors' health, Editors' Blog

Whole-person care — the antidote to physician burnout?

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Rising awareness of the toll that physician burnout is taking on our profession and our healthcare services has inspired numerous organizational physician...

Oct 17 2017

Editors' Blog

#MeToo in medicine

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   This post really needs no introduction. First came #WomenBoycottTwitter when Twitter straightjacketed Rose McGowan and women reacted angrily to what they felt...

Sep 15 2017

Editors' Blog

Big Data, burnout, mental health and innovation

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   In the last two weeks I’ve attended three very different scientific conferences on behalf of the CMAJ Group. In fact you couldn’t...

Nov 15 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reflections on Day Two of #NAPCRG2016

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ. She is currently attending the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) annual meeting in Colorado Springs, CO.   In the plenary session...

Nov 09 2016

Editors' Blog

The world needs more Canada

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Yes I did wake up at 3 am today and think, “I’ll just check the U.S. election results…” and boy do I...

Jun 24 2016

Editors' Blog

The Canadian Paediatric Association meeting: an antidote to my #BrexitBlues

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ. She is currently attending the Canadian Paediatric Society annual meeting in Charlottetown, PEI   For the past two-and-a-bit days I’ve been privileged to...

Jun 23 2016

Editors' Blog

Resilience and Mutual Accountability at the CPS annual conference

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ. She is currently attending the Canadian Paediatric Society annual meeting in Charlottetown, PEI   Much as I love the Harry Potter books and...

May 01 2016

Editors' Blog

Signing of the Paris Climate Change Agreement: is it important for health?

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   This morning I swam at my local YMCA with Canada’s Minister for the Environment and Climate Change. Minister McKenna and I belong...

Aug 25 2015

Editors' Blog

Ode to Big Data

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ; she’s currently attending the 31st International Conference on PharmacoEpidemiology &Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE) in Boston   About a year ago I suggested “Big...

Jul 12 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Dangerous ideas

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, recently returned from the Society for Academic Primary Care’s annual conference in Oxford, UK   What sort of research would we be doing...