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
- 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
- Podcast — Meet Dr. Andreas Laupacis, CMAJ’s new editor-in-chief
- 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
- Podcast: Doctors Without Borders on winning the Nobel Peace Prize — An interview from our archives
- 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
- Sonata in C, Journey Through the Valley
- 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
- toxoplasmosis
- 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
- The conceptual elephant in the room
- 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
- The other side of the glass: from patient to provider
- 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
- Podcast: Take-home naloxone kits for opioid overdose
- 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
- Podcast: Opioid guideline for management of chronic non-cancer pain
- 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
- Podcast: Zika virus in Canadian travellers
- Podcast: Clinical guideline for smoking in youth
- Driving versus thriving: a novel approach to public health screening advocacy
- Enhancing value: Realizing the promise of primary care through effective implementation
- Podcast: Public coverage of essential medicines in Canada
- Cross-border learning: Advancing the science of transformation in integrated primary care
- Podcast: The influence of lifestyle factors on breast cancer prognosis
- Podcast: A medical student tests positive for tuberculosis
- Podcast: Snowfall and the risk of heart attack
- 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
- Podcast: Diagnosis and management of pediatric tuberculosis in Canada
- 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
- Podcast: Reflections on treating newly arrived Syrians
- A primary care research success story
- A neglected determinant of health: Urban design
- Podcast: Life with severe chronic pain
- Podcast: Diagnosis of central nervous system tumours in children
- Trump’s ‘ignore-ance’ will harm our health
- Podcast: A resident treats a terminally ill patient in the emergency department
- 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
- Podcast: An older psychiatrist recounts memorable moments in practice
- The world needs more Canada
- Podcast: Obstetrical service closures and delivery safety in BC
- Podcast: Encounter with a young Syrian refugee on the streets of Beirut
- Making human genetics great again by being strongly together
- Podcast: Diagnosis and management of supraventricular tachycardias
- Mending the Souls of Our Seniors
- “The other side of silence”
- 1:15 am
- Let’s not be our own worst enemies
- Podcast: A systematic approach to helping patients quit smoking
- Raising awareness of drug shortages in Canada – talking to residents
- How to equip policymakers to advance the physical activity agenda
- Podcast: Reading of “Cutting through the shame” Humanities article
- Treating children with ADHD: don’t underestimate the importance of adequate medication dosing
- Podcast: Managing opioid use disorder in hospital
- 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
- Podcast: Taking action on social determinants of health
- 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
- Breaking the Boundaries of Complex Care for Children
- 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
- Internal Dictation
- 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
- Podcast: How patients perceive palliative care
- 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
- [Podcast] HIV treatment as prevention in men who have sex with men
- Counter-transference
- Observations of a pathologist: preventable deaths reflect health infrastructure in Iraq
- Painting lives
- The elephant in the library
- [Podcasts] Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder guideline + recording physician-assisted dying on death certificate
- crazy brilliance
- Preterm birth: risk factor for early-onset chronic diseases [Podcast]
- Atomic Data
- Health Care and Climate Change
- Screening for cognitive impairment: clinical practice guideline [Podcast]
- 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
- Medicine at sea: the front line of the migrant crisis [Podcast]
- Humans of Pharmacare: exploring how our current system of drug provision impacts Canadians
- A resource to inform patients and the public about clinical trials
- Acne clinical practice guideline; historical perspective on food allergy [Podcasts]
- 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
- Testosterone deficiency syndrome in adult males: clinical practice guideline [Podcast]
- 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
- [Podcast] Allergy prevention in infants and timing of food introduction
- 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
- [Podcast] Iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis clinical practice guideline
- Peer reviewers – we couldn’t do without you
- Remembering Doctors Sacks and Sackett: Two different legacies leave a path to better care
- [Podcast] Legalizing cannabis in Canada
- My Patients Help Me Belong
- Election 2015: Health care issues that should be top of mind
- [Podcast] Addressing vaccine hesitancy and refusal
- [Podcast] Recommendations for preventing fracture in long-term care
- Gulliver
- Good health requires environmental security
- [Podcasts] Identifying skull fracture in kids with mild head injury; comeback of psychedelic medicine
- My Best Life
- The Biopsy
- Ode to Big Data
- Lost Words
- [Podcasts] Clinical guideline for reducing vaccine pain; family physician versus obstetrician for delivery
- 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
- [Podcasts] Health care at the federal election; physician experience and patient outcomes
- Book Review: Every Patient Tells a Story (Lisa Saunders)
- Hunger in a land of plenty
- [Podcast] Household food insecurity is associated with higher health care costs
- A New Equilibrium: A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery – Part Five
- Medicine and Philosophy: A Necessary Relationship
- [Podcasts] Speed is critical for acute ischemic stroke; social determinants of hepatitis C
- Facing Death
- Radon-induced lung cancer can be prevented
- [Podcast] A safe and effective non-surgical option for middle ear infections in children
- 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
- Ill-fitting models and labels – #sapcasm day 2
- 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
- [Podcast] Using social connections to research the homeless, drug addicts & others
- A tool to assist Point-of-Care Evidence-Based Diagnosis
- Why gender matters when it comes to stigma associated with addictions
- [Podcast] Early-stage breast cancer imaging: are doctors choosing wisely?
- If Dr. Seuss Were My Doctor
- On women in Science and Medicine
- Girl in the dark
- [Podcast] Radon, developmental coordination disorder, nitrofurantoin for UTIs & more
- Split Selves
- Inverno
- Psychiatry conferences and the outsider’s view
- [Podcasts] Preoperative testing before low-risk surgery + add-ons to cataract surgery
- A Meeting with Poverty
- EMR security problems – don’t get stung
- [Podcast] Frailty and hospital readmission or death
- 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?
- [Podcasts] Security of health workers in war zones; variations in angina therapy; May 19 issue overview
- Gas and Guidance
- On the Map: Arts & Health BC
- [Podcasts] E-cigarette regulation + psychotic disorders among immigrants
- Believe it or not
- Social change at the heart of medicine: An interview with CMA’s Chris Simpson
- The birth lottery
- Author interview: Vanessa’s Law and improving documentation of adverse drug reactions
- 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
- Author interview podcasts: nitrofurantoin for UTIs + recovery from severe mental illness
- Creating space in Medicine for social science
- Waiting for test results: what will the ‘CT leaves’ show?
- Physical activity and its health benefits
- Podcast: meningoccocal immunity, heart failure & ejection fraction, pharmacare, alcohol misuse & more
- Author interview with Dr. Prabhat Jha – tobacco control in the next decade
- Author interview podcast: pets and risk of infection
- 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
- #ALSIceBucketChallenge – More Than a Social Media Phenomenon
- Cross-cultural communication in clinical practice – insights from the RESTORE Conference part I: the Irish viewpoint
- Author interview podcast: should you freeze your fertility?
- 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
- Podcast: low-back pain, genetic mutations, old orphan drugs, child obesity & more
- A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery, part III: Christmas day with a leg bag
- Author interview podcast: elder abuse
- 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
- Author interview podcast: child obesity guideline
- Conference FoMo
- Book Review: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
- French doctor speaks out in pollution controversy
- Negotiating with Chemo Fatigue
- John Robert Evans, 1929–2015
- Podcast: resident hours, RUDAS tool, follow-up for chest pain, jaundice, nocturia, tattoos, cannabis & more
- Author interview podcast: universal pharmacare in Canada is affordable
- Author interview podcast: adult obesity guideline
- 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
- Podcast: Nocturnal leg cramps, safety of quinine, EMR data, myiasis, turkey wattle, #JeSuisCharlie & more
- Physician-assisted death: how veterinarians can contribute to the conversation
- Author interview podcast: systemic failure to address at-risk drinking
- 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
- Author interview podcast: follow-up for ED chest pain
- House Call
- Podcast: Clarithromycin and statins, Aboriginal patients, hep C screening, ebola & travel restrictions & more
- Author interview podcast: cognitive test for diverse populations
- 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
- Author interview podcasts: resident duty schedules
- 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
- Podcast: Sexual activity after HPV vaccine, founder mutations in Inuit, anal cancer, sodium sagas, and more
- Aborting the Term “Miscarriage”
- Watch the movie — become a family physician
- Podcast author interviews: seasonal variability of leg cramps + safety concerns of quinine
- 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?
- Podcast: Diversity in medical education, amoxicillin harms, group A strep, birth-weight curves, and more
- 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
- Podcast: end-of-life care goals, ibuprofen for post-fracture pain in kids, deprescribing, solitary confinement, pap smears
- 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
- Podcast: Mediterranean diet, taxing unhealthy food, non-cow’s milks & vitamin D, physician-assisted dying, and more
- 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
- Podcast: fragile families, prostate screening, yearly health exam, and more
- “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?
- The 2015 Humanities Poetry and Prose Contest
- 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
- Ophthalmology vs. Otolaryngology
- 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