Category: Reflections

Mar 04 2016

Postmodern academic general practice: examining continuity of care

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Sir Denis Pereira Gray, OBE, is a consultant at St Leonard’s Research Practice, Exeter, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom A few weeks...

Feb 22 2016

Reflections

Medically unexplained symptoms: polyvagal theory to explain the weird things we see

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Bruce Arroll is a Professor of General Practice at the University of Auckland and a GP at the Greenstone Family Clinic in Manurewa Auckland My first clinical impression of...

Feb 14 2016

Reflections

Human beings, urbanization and the Anthropocene

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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 We live at a time of two great –...

Feb 09 2016

Doctors' health, Reflections

It lies in the balance

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Magbule Doko is a family physician in Windsor, Ontario, and an adjunct professor at The University of Western Ontario School. Career. Children. Partner. Parents. Siblings. Being a Doctor. Getting...

Feb 05 2016

Reflections

Racial Profiling in Medicine: a brief history and a look at where we are now

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Boluwaji Ogunyemi is a Dermatology Resident Physician in Vancouver, BC, and a freelance writer for the Huffington Post, Ubyssey Newspaper, and the Online Journal for Community and Person-centered Dermatology ...

Feb 03 2016

Reflections

The need for transparency regarding genetic engineering of food sources

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Ijaz Rauf is CEO of SolarGrid Energy Inc. and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at York University The first trans-genetic animal intended for human consumption recently received approval from...

Jan 28 2016

Reflections

The Canadian Common CV: an academic pursuit of hyper-compliance

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Jacquelyn Cragg is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and University of British Columbia. John Kramer is an Assistant Professor at the University of...

Jan 22 2016

Reflections

Memo to Canada’s Health Ministers: turn the system on its head

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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 Canada’s Health Ministers met in Vancouver this week. All...

Jan 19 2016

Reflections

A royal memory

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Harold Fireman is a retired physician. He is 96 years old and retired aged 88 Medical doctors, in a long career, encounter many interesting, unforgettable events. Strangely, my...

Jan 08 2016

Reflections

Doctors should still care about the threat of nuclear weapons

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Juan Carlos Chirgwin is a family doctor working at CLSC Park Extension health facility in Montreal, Canada Now that “Canada is back” and “sunny ways” are on the horizon,...

Jan 07 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Let’s put healthy food on the conference table

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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 Canada’s health ministers will meet in Vancouver on January...

Jan 05 2016

Reflections

The Forest from the Trees: A Learner’s Insight on Developing a Patient History

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Amanda Formosa University of Toronto Class of 2016 At the beginning of third year medical school, I envisioned the next twelve months as an immersion in the clinical world, with...

Dec 23 2015

Reflections

Living on the streets is no game

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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 On December 19, the Globe and...

Dec 16 2015

Reflections

The elephant in the library

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Kira Payne MD, FRCPC, is a recently retired psychiatrist and jazz musician living in Toronto, Ontario You would think it would be easy to be an expert in...