All Posts

All published blog posts are listed below. To read posts from 2008, including posts by Dr. Amy Hendricks and Dr. Peter Sherk, visit cmajblog.blogspot.ca

• OPQRST
• The human connection
• Systole/Diastole
• Reflections on the healing role of palliative care
• From policy to action: applying the Canadian Medical Association’s equity and diversity statement to the clinical learning environment
• Off medicine, on Broadway: lessons about medicine in the theatre
• Patient-oriented research: everything old is new again
• The fallacy of perfection
• Virtual forum on Black student representation in the health sciences – moving forward through co-construction
• The person behind the patient
• Losing my mother during medical school: A reflection
• A CaRMS odyssey
• Omicron – we can’t say we didn’t know
• 10:30
• The last spring
• Trauma: encountering the past in the present
• A double take on anti-asian racism
• Re-engineering resilience
• The chapter after death
• COVID-19 and inequities in Canada: an opportunity for action
• Is uncertainty a fate worse than death?
• COVID-19 tested our health systems; the climate crisis will pulverize them
• All physicians deserve true belonging within our profession
• Loose ties held tight
• Dystonia: one patient’s surprising adventure to help find answers to doctors’ questions
• Safety vs. wellbeing in long-term care during COVID-19
• I’m taking the summer off: a medical learner’s perspective
• From an ex-running-hater
• From virtual-first to patient-directed: a new normal for primary care
• Doctors’ deafening — and deadly – silence on the closure of Calgary’s supervised consumption service
• The ‘PTSD’ construct isn’t good enough for understanding and addressing historical trauma
• The mismatch within the match
• Inoculating with optimism: experience of a COVID-19 vaccinator
• The potential health and social effects of Alberta’s draft K-6 curriculum
• The dance of worried motherhood
• Mopping a pathway…to clinical practice as an IMG in Canada
• The Personal Letter I Never Submitted
• Canada’s loss of both the pandemic early warning system & the precautionary principle
• A Tale of Two Pandemics
• My year as the CMAJ’s Editorial Fellow
• What are we really telling our medical students? The story of the hidden curriculum
• Reflections from “the other side”
• Hello, 2021
• A tale of 4 sisters during COVID-19
• Announcing the first ever Canadian women physicians day
• Reflections on a pan-Canadian round table on COVID-19 vaccination
• Adapting research to a virtual format during COVID-19
• When physicians’ families give too much
• More than “just a family doctor”
• The fallacy of balance in medicine
• So how does it end?
• Mass
• Stories of Comfort
• Cinnamon
• Reading Around the Mask
• Compassion: our superpower for dealing with discriminatory patients
• Losing touch
• “Sorry, no visitors allowed”
• Questioning a father’s integrity because of his origin
• Nuclear disarmament for health: time to rejoice
• Telemedicine, autism spectrum disorder and difficult conversations: challenging the 10,000-hour rule
• The system is me too…
• Should the MCCQE II exams go ahead?
• Distanced Solidarity
• CMA Policy on equity and diversity in medicine encouraging for International Medical Graduates
• The issue is not resilience
• COVID-19 and loss of control
• The Stoic Dichotomy of Control and the Medical Trainee
• The Ruby of Routine
• Two poems: “Strangers — Vicarious Lives”, “Entrance”
• Broken Telephone
• Virtual baptism in the PICU – compassion during a pandemic
• Becoming a Pit Crew for Frontline Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• A Reflection on the Changing Face of Medicine
• Viral Shedding
• Looking into the Cinematic Mirror: Studying Outbreak Films during COVID-19
• Birthday during COVID
• Learning from a global pandemic
• The effect of COVID-19 uniforms
• Virtual family-centred rounds: a collaborative necessity during COVID-19 and beyond
• Becoming
• COV-EID: Navigating socially-distant festivities
• Dawn and dusk: a tale of two deliveries
• A patient’s experience of COVID-19
• Phone call
• Lessons from the bedside
• Pandemic therapy
• How one small town tackled the COVID-19 pandemic and won
• Let statements of solidarity on social media not be the end of allyship
• Ramping up in-person office visits in primary care in the aftermath of COVID-19
• Family physician leadership in long-term care: COVID-19 success and a call to action
• I can care for patients because I am not afraid
• Chewing gum for COVID-19
• Revisiting the no visitors policy
• Finding purpose in a pandemic
• A sister’s reflections
• People who use drugs are experiencing overlapping crises during COVID-19
• On the bench
• Good luck
• The truth behind the mask
• Normalizing deviance
• An unusual week in the ICU: In the shadow of a pandemic
• Orphaned
• From the sideline of the front line
• A call for the standardization of resident protections during the COVID-19 pandemic response
• Month 2
• Déjà vu in the time of COVID-19
• Have we flattened the curve that matters?
• Name alert
• My COVID-19 patient arc
• Not every cough is COVID-19
• COVID-19 and cancer care in Thunder Bay
• COVID-19: What can medical students do?
• An ode to our primary care team
• Feeling pessimistic about COVID-revealed inequities
• Release from incarceration during the concurrent COVID-19 and opioid use crises
• What would Don do?
• Letter to colleagues of the world from an Italian doctor
• Thank you
• Far away
• Why I am leaving my mom in her long-term care facility
• The privilege of being a resident during COVID-19
• CMAJ in the time of COVID-19
• Safeguarding the health of Canada’s most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic
• A story of the twin crises of COVID-19 and homelessness
• A particularly memorable night on-call
• Zoom meeting to keep family up to speed
• Fear and danger in the coronavirus war
• Why Canada needs urgent revisions to its COVID-19 response strategy
• Lessons COVID-19 has taught me
• A fortnight is forever in a pandemic
• From SARS reporter to COVID-19 front line
• Worrying about loved ones
• Through the eyes of the front lines: the perspective of a 1st year family medicine resident
• How we are using simulation to help our hospital prepare for COVID-19
• Social distancing at work and home
• The potential role of unmatched Canadian Medical Graduates during a pandemic
• Politicians should stick to their lane, and realities of social distancing
• COVID-19 will reveal our true values
• SARS, Big Macs, mom’s quarantine and coyotes
• COVID-19: Crisis reflections from the front line
• The viral spread of racism
• The observer vs the imposter
• The Case for Narrative Medicine
• Supporting meaningful patient and public involvement in research
• What My Brain Tumor Taught Me: The Role My Medical History Plays in My Medical Career
• Letter to Class of 2020
• Why do we expect patients to rely on memory alone? Receiving written instructions at the doctor’s office
• Evolution of Canadian medicine with Dr. Douglas Bocking
• Addiction, Literature, and the Self: The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
• Patient access to essential rare disorder drugs: The long and winding road
• Is the process of funding Canadian scientific research failing to advance Nobel prize-worthy work?
• What we do
• If Earth Was Our Patient
• Are physicians with burnout eligible for workplace-related compensation?
• Reflection on a multidisciplinary care team block
• The side effects of economic sanctions: the case of North Korea
• On call the night before Christmas
• HOLIDAY READING – The search for the perfect song for CPR 
• HOLIDAY READING – The twelve days of Grants-mas: a rapid qualitative review
• The power of patient and caregiver partnership
• Anonymity in surgery
• where roots end
• Do I even like politics?
• Ready
• Observations on public health
• All the anatomy she taught
• Asking for a referee letter
• Structural violence and Canada’s overdose catastrophe: time for a Royal Commission
• Why the MCC Qualifying Examination Part II still matters
• Illness as a metaphor: book review
• Can’t have one without the other: an argument for conscientious provision of healthcare services
• Harnessing the power of patients’ written words in clinical notes
• Open encounters in crowded ERs
• Three perspectives make a whole
• CMAJ Blogs Holiday Reading
• Mastectomy
• New season: Dear Dr. Horton, ask away!
• Health system transformation in Ontario: leadership lessons
• MD offer letter
• The ‘Evidence-Based Medicine movement’ – where to, next?
• First loss
• A lesson in palliative care from my grandmother
• Google Scholar Syndrome
• Stranger in the room
• Let’s see a concrete plan to implement universal pharmacare in Canada
• A call for action for summary clinical reports
• It’s time to talk: Gender and race in medicine
• Not everything in health care needs to be virtualized
• Addressing the income gap in medical school
• From vision to action in primary care
• What I Am
• Primary care: arriving or departing?
• How one great team’s victory set another one in motion
• Pulmonary stenosis
• Looking closely at the link between IVF treatment and childhood cancers
• The Future of Climate Change: The HEART Initiative
• A testament to youth? Reflections on the Polio era in Alberta
• Canada’s national pharmacare plan: Reason for hope or more questions?
• Victory of an anti-vaxxer mother: A case that should not set precedent
• arachnoid aneurysm
• Becoming the doctor the patient in me wished for: my cancer journey
• Washed Away
• Someone call the real doctor
• Med Life with Dr. Horton & guests Alan Alda and Dr. Deepu Gawda — Feeling disconnected from patients
• Taking up space: what a medical student and an aspiring advocate share
• Pregnancy loss: lessons from ‘Roma’
• Possible
• In the Blink of an Eye
• ventricular septal defect & overriding aorta
• An insidious niceness
• The new ‘Wellness’ prescription: what it means in a surgical vocation of service
• Stroked
• Creative arts in the life of a doctor — Med Life with Dr. Horton podcast
• Right heart strain
• Where are my drugs made?
• New Season: Dear Dr. Horton, #1 The Invisible Gorilla
• Tight Rope
• Things I meant, but didn’t say
• Reminders
• The best of both worlds: bridging the clinical and non-clinical experience in hospitals
• Beyond Us
• Addicts anonymous
• The impact of poverty on Canadian children: a call for action
• meta static
• Home care nurses need more support to meet the needs of complex patients
• The real doctor
• A Shipwrecked Midnight
• Voiceless
• Memorial
• Physician mental health: why we need to share our stories of struggle and success
• egophony, and other sounds
• Dear Dr Horton #8: CaRMS Interview Tips
• A song of mental health
• CaRMS interviews — Med Life with Dr. Horton podcast
• Ripe
• The other side of the table
• Book review: Are You The F**king Doctor?
• Dear Dr. Horton #7: Mourning
• Heavy secret
• Prescribing cannabinoids for pain is a challenge
• You’re my first Indigenous trainee
• Prom king
• Dear Dr. Horton #6: Twilight
• Prescription: a healthy dose of disruption
• Echoes in the operating theatre
• Defining global health
• Practicing medicine with care
• Book review: First Year Out
• Bipolar
• Mental health among medical students
• Dear Dr. Horton #5: Demoralized
• NAPCRG 2018: meaning in work and friendship in colleagues
• Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy: an asset in medical education
• Rising incidence of colorectal cancer in Millennials – time for a paradigm shift?
• This is how a physician should listen
• Dying with dignity: a palliative care comparison
• What it takes
• Dear Dr. Horton #4: Burning Out
• White Coat Warm heART: call for submissions
• Liveability
• To begin at the end
• The USMCA, biologics and Canada’s health system
• Twenty-six-hour days
• Strengthening ties between academic primary care institutions
• Suddenly
• Dear Dr. Horton #3: Lone Wolf
• Air and water
• Stigma and judgement are killing people
• Recognizing the importance of the traumatic nature of medicine
• A long way from home
• Allyship, building coalitions of the willing, and communities of interest
• Dear Dr. Horton #2: Procrastinator
• The portrait
• Blank space
• Celebrating life in a dignified death
• We need more nutrition education in medical schools
• Empathy
• Dear Dr. Horton #1: Rudderless
• Sacrifice in medicine
• “Patient”
• Legalizing cannabis: missing elements of an effective policy
• Stories of Medicine: putting “care” back into healthcare
• The Saudi-Canadian dispute: hidden racism in medical education
• So you want to build a health app, eh?
• The new AFMC – Gold Humanism Award and Lecture
• The gift of clinical clerkship: reflecting on uncertainty, privilege, and self-discovery
• The suburbs are not alright
• You have cancer
• Ghost boy
• A letter to my first-year self
• Seeking understanding
• VSA
• One kidney for an entire family: my first-year patient
• Challenge by example
• Warmth as hostility in a cruel summer’s dream
• To induce asystole as needed
• Book review: When Breath Becomes Air
• How traveling has made me a better medical student
• Book review: Taking Turns
• Self-definition
• Public response to Southeast Asian refugees in Canada (1979-1980): the legacy of private sponsorship and lessons for refugee health care
• The value of art in medical education
• But neither stops the song
• Doctor Mom considers the future of school sex ed in Ontario
• Maud & Mulligan
• Strangers to friends: how do we build trust in medicine?
• Corpse
• Why I called André Picard’s column on mental illness a nothingburger
• Book review: Doing Harm
• Minutes, milligrams, and millilitres
• Is the Canadian medical education system broken on both ends?
• White vans, white coats, and the human desire for meaning
• Outside the walls of the hospital: reflections on doing an MPH during residency
• CaRMS: the fortress between medical school and residency
• Still healing
• Dentists take a bite out of unnecessary prescribing, procedures and testing
• Apprehensive about the future of the spirit-healer’s fragile stone
• Canadian health humanities association launched
• Book review: Life on the Ground Floor
• Cultural safety: xenophobia within the same cultural group
• Sex, Syphilis, and The Taboo of Money in Medicine
• The 20th anniversary of a vaccine debacle: time to reflect on how far we have come
• When art and science meet
• To the parents of a clinical clerk: thank you
• Seeking Executive Committee nominations for the new Canadian Association for Health Humanities
• “Nothing”
• Recollecting an ethics of care: Heideggerian questions in medicine
• Memoirs of a lamenting mind
• The returns of smarter spending on food in health care
• Book review: The Unravelling
• When the doctor says sorry – do we know if apology laws work?
• Junk science: a running hypothesis
• Medical dysfunction
• Resiliency: foundational skills for a long and productive career in medicine
• The forgotten people: reflecting on the contemporary social isolation of Canadian seniors
• Whole-person care — the antidote to physician burnout?
• What working at a supervised injection site for a year taught me about our healthcare system
• Death in medical training
• A public health approach to post-traumatic stress disorder in refugees and asylum seekers
• Beyond the grave: where are spirituality and mental health in medical training?
• The Supply-Demand Mismatch: “What do you mean unemployed specialists?”
• Faded memories
• Can health care learn from Bitcoin and blockchain?
• Experiencing vulnerability in Ethiopia
• The CMA Presidential Election: What’s that to me?
• The hidden curriculum of mental illness stigma in medical training
• Book review: The Remedy
• The soloist
• Laundry Detergent Pod Toxicity
• From Ireland to Canada as a medical student
• The blue backpack
• Ontario’s Pre-residency program for International Medical Graduates could be designed to be more effective
• Mountain rescue doctor: a different life
• A goal
• The final project
• Bedside manner
• Early Career Research in Primary Care Medicine in Switzerland
• Gratitude
• Remaining silent is a choice: reflections of a medical student on medical student death
• The research paper as a Fairy Tale
• Book review: Medicine, Unbundled
• A 360 Degree View of Organ and Tissue Donation
• The patient experience and the coming of a new physician
• Overdosed
• A community-based program to support refugees and engage medical students
• Doctor Mom reflects on her son’s experience of peer victimization
• A medical student becomes acquainted with death
• Homelessness and health: an elective experience
• The end of the long adolescence
• Mount Everest
• For the love of surgery
• Family medicine, home visits, and holistic care
• An ode for a night ward
• 50 years of education and research at MUN’s Faculty of Medicine
• The hearing
• 60 minutes
• Fainting in the OR on Rwandan Liberation Day
• White Coat Warm heArt: unleash your inner artist
• Why all healthcare providers should experience being a patient
• In the face of death
• Holding fast
• Collateral
• Basic structures
• I wish I would have known
• Cinders
• On humility
• Getting on top of antimicrobial resistance: how to make a business case for an inpatient antimicrobial stewardship program
• Giving place a chance: celebrating rural family medicine in Marathon
• How to build brain resilience
• Holding public research universities to account on global health
• Income splitting is not about taxes; it’s about rights
• #MeToo in medicine
• Doctor Mom talks mental health with her teen
• The opioid crisis: patient engagement in pain management has never been so crucial
• Big Data, burnout, mental health and innovation
• Sicker than I’d ever been before: a patient’s experience of sepsis
• The Mentorship Project
• Give them pens: the poetry of Shane Neilson
• Rediscovering scholarship in family medicine
• Our Code of Ethics must prohibit physician participation in torture
• Rediscovering enjoyment of general practice – SAPC Day 2
• Multimorbidity and the challenges of primary care practice at SAPC Day 1
• To save lives we should do more to control alcohol
• Pressure to breastfeed
• Crossroad of patient safety and medical malpractice in Canada
• The art of medical imaging
• Credible answers to contentious questions in André Picard’s book, “Matters of Life and Death”
• Getting the WHO we want means vetting before the Director General vote
• Double standards in concussion recovery: Sidney Crosby’s latest injury
• Improving the quality of our healthcare system: Are we adopting the right approach?
• Opiophobia: the new fashion in town
• Bridging the information gap between physician and patient perspectives on health
• Misled by incomplete facts about effects of coal burning
• New territory: failing to plan for the unthinkable
• Doctor Mom’s son learns that contact with the health care system is best avoided
• Driving versus thriving: a novel approach to public health screening advocacy
• Enhancing value: Realizing the promise of primary care through effective implementation
• Cross-border learning: Advancing the science of transformation in integrated primary care
• Our descendants need protection from us
• We need to move beyond God’s Healthcare Plan
• Canadian healthcare in 2017: let’s aim for a smarter, more caring Canada
• Visceral responses to law of the heart transgressed; we should not suppress them
• Innovations in primary care research
• Drug shortages: resolutions for 2017
• The challenge of preventing overdiagnosis
• The importance of data presentation and peer review in medical reporting
• A primary care research success story
• A neglected determinant of health: Urban design
• Trump’s ‘ignore-ance’ will harm our health
• East of Last Chance: finding research paradise on the high plains
• Reflections on Day Two of #NAPCRG2016
• Constriction
• Reflections on Day One of #NAPCRG2016
• Creating a “community of solution” for refugees: diversity in approaches of local research responses
• Expanding the evidence-base to offer guidance on best health care for immigrants and refugees
• Research to inform a patient centred health system for refugees
• The scope of the international refugee crisis and challenges for Primary Care
• The world needs more Canada
• Making human genetics great again by being strongly together
• Mending the Souls of Our Seniors
• “The other side of silence”
• 1:15 am
• Let’s not be our own worst enemies
• Raising awareness of drug shortages in Canada – talking to residents
• How to equip policymakers to advance the physical activity agenda
• Treating children with ADHD: don’t underestimate the importance of adequate medication dosing
• My first visit at a family shelter: a social pediatrics experience
• Our healthcare non-system
• Children’s Mental Health 1954-2016 – who cares?
• A treatment for loneliness
• We need to protect our health care system
• Heat waves and the absence of evidence to guide adjustment of chronic medications
• Keeping track of drug shortages in Canada
• Global Health Diplomacy: reflections on a graduate course
• Training the Next Generation of Canadian Clinician Scientists: Challenges and Opportunities on the Road Ahead
• The Republican Club
• Is there a genetic holy grail for athletes?
• Bill C-442 and “Chronic Lyme Disease”: the parallels with “chronic brucellosis”
• her name is Gaia.
• Anti-doping testing in athletics: standardisation-and-harmonisation negative
• Boxing, brain damage and head protection: why aren’t the boxers at the Olympics wearing head guards?
• The Canadian medics behind the Olympic athletes
• Dangers
• Olympic Legends
• Think Carefully About Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying
• Medical Football Team Canada returns from Barcelona with a 14th Place International Ranking and a research award
• From data-driven illustrations to gamified neuron mapping
• More than medicine
• Transit
• Roundup of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) annual meeting
• International perspectives on academic careers in primary care: the roundup
• A remarkable turnaround of opportunity for primary care academics
• A framework for building health research capacity in Ireland
• ‘Next-gen’ leadership in healthcare
• On the value of the international perspective in supporting primary care
• Reflections on structured PhD training for general practitioners in Ireland
• National Research School in General Practice in Sweden – Building Bridges to Lift a Specialty
• A Canadian perspective on training and career support in Family Medicine
• Clinical academic careers in Family Medicine: sharing international experience
• Publication School
• A Honeyed Voice
• The Canadian Paediatric Association meeting: an antidote to my #BrexitBlues
• Resilience and Mutual Accountability at the CPS annual conference
• for Cleopatra.
• Respiratory virus surveillance: why we need more physicians to volunteer as community based sentinel health care providers
• A critical examination of health system governance in Nunavut
• Reflections of an early career researcher on PHCRIS 2016
• Highlights from Day 2 of PHCRIS Canberra
• Reform and Innovation: highlights from the 2016 Primary Health Care Research Conference
• Rallying again to support academic primary care in Australia
• The Australian Primary Health Care Research Conference: Knowledge exchange without borders
• The “forgotten” fourth aim of quality improvement in health care – improving the experience of providers
• Lessons most runners learn too late (even doctors)
• Writer
• A healthy death
• When a child dies
• Is general practice failing?
• Curt’s Story: An experience with Physician Assisted Dying
• Signing of the Paris Climate Change Agreement: is it important for health?
• On the Nobel Laureates and Medicine: The Secret to an Extraordinary Career
• A young doctor’s death
• The evolving face of public health crises in Canada: Are we ready?
• Time to transform the medical curriculum in Aboriginal Health
• Hacking medical devices
• We want to come home
• A BC psychiatrist’s experience of providing psychiatric services to 4 Northern communities
• Feeling rejected
• Die Alone
• Academic primary care: needed now more than ever
• Medical Moms’ toddlers tantrum too
• A Touch of Reality
• Yesterday’s heroes: challenges facing top athletes when they retire
• 2016: International “Year of Pulses”
• Empowerment and health – 30 years on from the Ottawa Charter
• Brain Vitamins
• Postmodern academic general practice: examining continuity of care
• Can you get out of your chair unaided?
• Blank Page
• Medically unexplained symptoms: polyvagal theory to explain the weird things we see
• Human beings, urbanization and the Anthropocene
• Exercise for older athletes: Is there such a thing as too much?
• It lies in the balance
• Racial Profiling in Medicine: a brief history and a look at where we are now
• The need for transparency regarding genetic engineering of food sources
• I never thought this day would come…
• #s
• Thinking the unthinkable: General Practice Research
• The Canadian Common CV: an academic pursuit of hyper-compliance
• The Quiet Room
• Memo to Canada’s Health Ministers: turn the system on its head
• A royal memory
• Cancer, genetics, and caring
• Doctors should still care about the threat of nuclear weapons
• Let’s put healthy food on the conference table
• The Forest from the Trees: A Learner’s Insight on Developing a Patient History
• Living on the streets is no game
• Counter-transference
• Observations of a pathologist: preventable deaths reflect health infrastructure in Iraq
• Painting lives
• The elephant in the library
• Atomic Data
• Health Care and Climate Change
• Refugees, human rights and global health: what role can Canadian physicians play?
• Social Determinants of Palliative Care: A Medical Student’s Experience
• Doctors’ dysfunctional behaviour and patient safety
• When suicide becomes banal
• Pig Hearts
• Humans of Pharmacare: exploring how our current system of drug provision impacts Canadians
• A resource to inform patients and the public about clinical trials
• Doping in sport: More dreams in tatters and doctors were complicit
• Nobel and noble – the work of unsung heroes
• Would you do this if it was you, Doctor?
• On reach, dissemination and engagement: shouldn’t people read the paper?
• Some golden nuggets, and grumbles, from NAPCRG 2015
• Refugees should have access to equitable, affordable health care services in all Europe
• Early highlights from NAPCRG 2015
• International perspectives on improving end of life care
• Integrating palliative care into primary care in France
• ‘Depressing’ or an opportunity? Health care in Canada
• A Call to Action: Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care in the United States
• Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should
• Palliative care – everyone’s business!
• One of our biggest challenges: The End
• Instances
• Research in family medicine
• Why Canadian children need a champion
• Scientists, Academics, Journals and Publishing
• Remembering What I Learned to Forget
• Let’s lift the siege on public health
• From Postpartum to Postop
• Curiosity as competitiveness? Basic science research getting lost in translation
• The 5-year deferral period – a vestige of the past
• Sunshine, research and waste at the 2015 REWARD/EQUATOR Conference
• When Words Fail
• Modern Medicine: let’s return to reason
• Peer reviewers – we couldn’t do without you
• Remembering Doctors Sacks and Sackett: Two different legacies leave a path to better care
• My Patients Help Me Belong
• Election 2015: Health care issues that should be top of mind
• Gulliver
• Good health requires environmental security
• My Best Life
• Ode to Big Data
• Lost Words
• The past, present and future family doctor
• Health as a federal election issue
• As a recent Canadian medical graduate I feel ill-equipped to manage transpeople
• Book Review: Every Patient Tells a Story (Lisa Saunders)
• Hunger in a land of plenty
• A New Equilibrium: A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery – Part Five
• Medicine and Philosophy: A Necessary Relationship
• Facing Death
• Radon-induced lung cancer can be prevented
• The agony and the ecstasy: a review of Inside Out
• Editorial Note: The CMAJ Student Humanities Blog in Review
• Enough is enough: the US gun violence epidemic
• Closure
• Dangerous ideas
• Healthcare of the future
• Multimorbidity: time to deliver the Emperor’s clothes
• Experiencing end-of-life care through my grandpa
• “Mummy – do you have to go to the conference?”
• Measuring impact – #sapcasm day 1
• Supporting People with Medically Unexplained Syndromes
• Melanoma of the Heel
• CMAJBlogs is celebrating its first blogiversary!
• Shoes, egg sandwiches and white wine
• Medical Minority
• A tool to assist Point-of-Care Evidence-Based Diagnosis
• Why gender matters when it comes to stigma associated with addictions
• If Dr. Seuss Were My Doctor
• On women in Science and Medicine
• Girl in the dark
• Split Selves
• Inverno
• Psychiatry conferences and the outsider’s view
• A Meeting with Poverty
• EMR security problems – don’t get stung
• New evidence raises the stakes for treatment of cystic fibrosis, and other highlights of #ATS2015
• Where does primary care fit into the escalating cancer challenge?
• Home Birth: Dispatch from a Convert
• Is Omar Khadr a threat to Canadians?
• Gas and Guidance
• On the Map: Arts & Health BC
• Believe it or not
• Social change at the heart of medicine: An interview with CMA’s Chris Simpson
• The birth lottery
• Sea Sick
• A Caregiver Speaks Out
• Small steps to tackle obesity at the Canadian Obesity Summit
• Learning about rural family practice
• Making social determinants of health matter: An interview with Sir Michael Marmot
• Creating space in Medicine for social science
• Waiting for test results: what will the ‘CT leaves’ show?
• Physical activity and its health benefits
• Author interview with Dr. Prabhat Jha – tobacco control in the next decade
• Raising expectations: Down syndrome and informed decision making
• #EbolaRecovery
• The dark side of The Star’s Gardasil episode: when doctors and regulators are painted as the enemy
• Military training to provide health care at the Ebola Virus Disease Treatment Centre: a Canadian perspective
• Cross-cultural communication in clinical practice – insights from the RESTORE Conference part II: the North American viewpoint
• Cross-cultural communication in clinical practice – insights from the RESTORE Conference part I: the Irish viewpoint
• A glorious failure: recruiting pregnant women for physical activity research in primary care
• A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery, part IV: life beyond a leg bag
• A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery, part III: Christmas day with a leg bag
• A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery, part II: an unhealthy dose of reality
• “I am Struggling”: Lenses of Chronic Disease in Film
• Should we develop a global fund for cancer?
• Taking care of patients admitted to hospital: practical advice from the Society of Hospital Medicine 2015 conference
• Medical “momoir”: a doctor’s transition to motherhood
• Conference FoMo
• Book Review: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
• French doctor speaks out in pollution controversy
• Negotiating with Chemo Fatigue
• John Robert Evans, 1929–2015
• Lingua Medica
• AUDGPI 2015: Health checks, physical activity, prescribing and managing Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Some thoughts on a future research career
• Koplik spots: their importance and history
• “Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a Match”: Consequences of the CaRMS and US residency match agreement
• Let Me Go
• Call for Submissions: White Coat, Warm Art
• Physician-assisted death: how veterinarians can contribute to the conversation
• Refugee primary care: lessons in advocacy, cultural competence and self-reflection
• Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 6 of 6)
• Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 5 of 6)
• Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 4 of 6)
• Public Health’s ten year victory over tobacco
• My chemo mantra
• Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 3 of 6)
• Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 2 of 6)
• Primary care: a comparison across five nations (part 1 of 6)
• Remembrances of Alicia Priest
• A Time for Death
• House Call
• Myth busters, winter sports, tendinopathy and the law – Saturday at the CASEM-OMA symposium
• Preventing injury, the cycle commute and edutainment at the CASEM-OMA Sports Medicine symposium 2015
• Rugby concussion, ski trauma and horse racing’s orthopedic textbook
• How We Do Harm: Book Review
• Spotty vaccination records can leave Canada’s military families vulnerable
• Physician-assisted dying in Canada: the gavel has fallen
• French general practitioners take action
• Who’s afraid of three-parent babies?
• Swimming away the effects of chemotherapy
• Aborting the Term “Miscarriage”
• Watch the movie — become a family physician
• Life and death on the streets: cold comfort from the medical system
• Humanism in Medical Practice
• Culture shock: Why do we deny patients open access to their personal medical information?
• Preventing death from medication errors
• Practice Makes Perfect: The Hidden Curriculum of Learning Medicine
• Juice on inpatient diabetic menus: Are we propagating pulp fiction?
• Euthanizing God? Theism and conscientious objection to physician-assisted death
• Je suis Charlie
• Out of Place
• Teaching a technique to improve health in Haiti
• On to the dark detour called chemo – but I’m not alone
• Where is the Equal Opportunity in Mental Health?
• Scuba diving as therapy
• Winter Eyes
• Renforcer le profil académique de la médecine de famille en Suisse
• The chance to say ‘thank you’
• Happy Universal Health Coverage Day
• On the striking downward trend in injuries associated with alpine skiing
• Reflecting on the Golden Rule and Global Health Residency Electives
• Blink of an Eye
• Poor people need not apply
• The most extraordinary conference I’ve ever been to: Dotmed2014
• P.A.I.N.
• The pestilence that stalks in the darkness: an allegory
• Reflections on the NAPCRG Annual Meeting
• Health Canada and Wind Turbines: Too little too late?
• How having a Subtalar Dislocation increased my empathy for my senior patients
• Learning from Alberta’s experience: privately contracted healthcare in a publically funded system
• Multi-morbidity and the Emperor’s New Clothes: a challenge for primary care researchers
• Dr. Anonymous
• The blur that was surgery, and a start on the road to recovery
• Primary care research in Portugal: we need to generate more enthusiasm
• Research needs on primary health care in Colombia in the post-conflict era
• What we need to learn from each other in primary care
• Kardashian Index, Anti-Vax and Ebola: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• Minimally Disruptive Medicine: the need for careful and kind care
• Our kitchens should define our cooking
• Finding enough players for the teams: individual research capacity in Canada and Australia
• Primary Care Research in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• #FactsOverFear at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association
• The evolution of primary care research in Ukraine
• La recherche en médecine générale en France : le bon moment pour transformer l’essai?
• How to create great researchers: family medicine research East of Eden
• Primary care research – riding changes in the U.K.
• Primary health care research needs leadership, not pampering
• Primary care research: a minority sport?
• Exciting times for primary care research in Canada
• Stolen war medals found after 25 years
• My next event is Lung Surgery and I’m in training
• Boundaries
• Sympathy for the Devil: society, psychiatry and terrorism
• “Quiet little deaths”: dealing with impending loss
• Run in the dark
• Alive
• Defending the political prescription for obesity
• 10 things I learned from @kevinmd about why physicians should actively participate on social media
• How to answer the casual question, ‘How are ya?’
• Medical innovation or a risk to responsible clinical care?
• Why smoking on campus is uncool
• My First Patient
• Suicide is not cowardice. Listen!
• And now I’m PISSED OFF!
• Responding to domestic violence – victims, workplace and friends & family
• Not pro-death; just anti-suffering
• Care, Compassion, and a little Humility…
• I choose Hope
• Valoriser la médecine de famille : une aventure en Suisse
• Physician Hastened Death: Awaiting a Verdict
• The Law and physician assisted dying: who owes what, to whom?
• Physicians’ health in Germany
• Learning From Experience
• Why Jamaicans dominate sprinting and other wisdom from the BASEM/FESM conference 2014
• ONLY lung cancer: from worst-case-scenario fears to gratitude
• Top 10 most viewed articles for September
• Kindness and brutal honesty at the Cancer Assessment Centre
• Vanitas Dissected
• Excellence and Impact in Oxford
• Everything is medicine
• Activity, cultural awareness, self-restraint and nutrition to tackle obesity in youth
• The relief of sharing the news of my diagnosis
• Let’s put a firecracker under health care innovation in Canada
• Concussion – the Invisible Injury
• White coat, white privilege?
• On health and work
• I can find the courage to get through this
• Learning from doctors’ illness narratives
• The loneliness of the sick doctor
• “Possibly scar tissue, possibly nothing, possibly Lung Cancer”
• Doctors’ mental health
• Creatively transforming the patient experience (TEDMED 2014)
• Looking out for each other
• The humanity of medicine (TEDMED 2014)
• Play is not a waste of time (TEDMED 2014)
• A recipe for amazing (TEDMED 2014)
• Zoobiquity: collaboration between veterinarians and physicians (TEDMED 2014)
• Facing our discomfort around surrogacy (TEDMED 2014)
• Evolution of Medicine Summit
• On embracing the unknown (TEDMED 2014)
• Rethinking the delivery of breastfeeding advice (TEDMED 2014)
• Human Nature
• CMAJ is proud to be an affiliate of TEDMED 2014
• My New Meeting Mantra
• Slacktivism: truth or cynicism
• Medicine’s Own Brain Drain
• Hearing lost and regained: a professional and personal experience
• Doctors’ Health: overcoming our Great Expectations and pathological self-reliance
• A Simple Touch
• Health Information Technology – there’s no good app for that…
• The Symphony and medical teamwork – reflections on the WONCA Europe Conference 2014
• Climate change and the circumpolar experience
• “No, don’t touch the dead body!”
• It really was that bad, but I came back
• Physician as patient
• Lessons on healthy ageing from the 15th FINA World Masters Swimming Competition
• Moments
• Children on Mont Blanc, the Commonwealth Games, and a memorial service for Stewart Hillis
• Physician-centred health care
• What I learned from participating in international medical electives
• A peek inside the world of medical illustration
• Drifting Away
• Why do Chinese physicians say that they would NOT advise their children to study Medicine?
• Looking back on my year as an editorial fellow
• Anticoagulation and atrial fibrillation – more action, less anxiety
• An Elective in Perspective
• Cycling and the middle aged man – more urodynamics than aerodynamics?
• Time to Divest From the Fossil Fuel Industry
• Primary Care and universal health care dreams in ‘Soccer’s Country’
• When End of Life Care Gets Personal
• Art, science and business: the legacy of the World Cup in Brazil
• Proposed changes to Community Health Centres will hurt Primary Care in B.C
• Young doctors’ aspirations, gender balance and medical training
• The Modern Art of Medicine
• CMAJ.ca: truly international
• L’autre traitement
• Reflections on building primary care research capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
• The Branding
• The World Cup, injury, arthritis and treatment
• Life and death: a medical student’s first experiences with the circle of life
• Cycling, cancer, doping, and danger
• Lessons for doctors on patient involvement in research from day 2 of the Ca-PRI Conference
• Cancer in Primary Care—day 1 of the Ca-PRI Conference
• Prologue, Lifesource & Insomnia
• Voluntourism – call it a spade and use it carefully
• Early warning: a body scan may cost you your life
• Failure in medicine: my experience with the CaRMS match
• By the look on his face….
• Our relationship status with alcohol: It’s complicated
• Fat people eat more ice cream
• Fukushima three years on
• Drops for the baby and a shoulder for the mother
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: now a treatable disease and other highlights from the 2014 American Thoracic Society Annual Conference
• Patients’ experience of illness: lessons from classical guitarist, Liona Boyd
• Climate change, peer review, and the limits of medical expertise
• The Menu
• Do we eat too much salt—or not? More from the 2014 Consensus Conference on Nutrition
• To eat or not to eat: the 2014 Consensus Conference on Nutrition
• A Traveler’s Vista
• The Giro, Pantani, and a message for medicine
• Learning From the Experts
• What a patient taught me about Facebook
• Reflections on falling teenage pregnancy rates
• The Vocation of Medicine: Considering History, Theology, and Sociology
• My Box
• Creating space for medical humanities
• Insights into depression, suicide and PTSD from Northern Ireland
• Aujourd’hui
• Skeletal Discovery
• More from the IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport
• Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport: the IOC World Conference
• Grandma
• Lessons in Psychology and Animal Husbandry from the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Annual Meeting
• The Side Effects of Shadowing
• They Were Blue
• Ancient Medicine
• Seedling

 

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