Category: Reflections

Oct 01 2016

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...

Sep 21 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Treating children with ADHD: don’t underestimate the importance of adequate medication dosing

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Dr Rod Bergh is a general pediatrician who has practiced medicine since the early 1960s. I have practiced Pediatrics for most of the 59 years since I graduated from...

Sep 16 2016

Reflections

Our healthcare non-system

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy Some of the fundamental principles of our health-care system...

Sep 13 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Children’s Mental Health 1954-2016 – who cares?

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David Cawthorpe is a Professor (Adjunct) in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Alberta By the end of this month the 22nd International Association for Child...

Sep 13 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Iris Gorfinkel is a General Practitioner and Founder & Principal Investigator of PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ontario I’d been attending this particular patient’s medical needs as her GP...

Sep 09 2016

Reflections

We need to protect our health care system

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy Our health care system is not the only, and...

Sep 07 2016

Reflections

Keeping track of drug shortages in Canada

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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 “I want to quit my chemo. I can’t take...

Aug 19 2016

Reflections

Training the Next Generation of Canadian Clinician Scientists: Challenges and Opportunities on the Road Ahead

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Charles Yin in a MD/PhD Candidate at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University On June 18, 2015 the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced...

Aug 19 2016

Reflections

The Republican Club

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Richard Doan is a Psychiatrist with Inner City Health Associates and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario During my physical assessment course as...

Aug 16 2016

Reflections

Is there a genetic holy grail for athletes?

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Alejandro Lucia is Professor of Physiology at the European University of Madrid. He has a particular research interest in endurance sport and exercise physiology Carl Foster is Professor of Sports...

Aug 15 2016

Reflections

Bill C-442 and “Chronic Lyme Disease”: the parallels with “chronic brucellosis”

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Jeremy Devine is a 3rd year Medical Student at The University of Toronto On May 15th, 2016 the Conference to develop a federal framework on Lyme disease took place...

Aug 14 2016

Reflections, Student Humanities Blog

her name is Gaia.

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Adriano Mollica University of Toronto Class of 2019 I look at you, and I wish there was some sort of incantation to whisper that could string together all the fickle...

Jul 05 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

‘Next-gen’ leadership in healthcare

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Robyn Tamblyn is Scientific Director at the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of...

Jul 05 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

Reflections on structured PhD training for general practitioners in Ireland

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Emma Wallace is a Senior Clinical Research fellow in the Health Research Board (HRB) Centre for Primary Care Research at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Medical school...