Category: Reflections

Dec 03 2015

Reflections

Health Care and Climate Change

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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   In this week of the Paris climate change summit,...

Dec 01 2015

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Refugees, human rights and global health: what role can Canadian physicians play?

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David Benrimoh is a fourth year medical student at McGill University Dr. Cécile Rousseau is a professor of psychiatry at McGill University, working with refugee and immigrant children   The...

Nov 24 2015

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

When suicide becomes banal

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Dr. Rene Leiva is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Family Medicine of the University of Ottawa. Part of his work includes in-patient Palliative Care and Care of the...

Nov 07 2015

Reflections

Would you do this if it was you, Doctor?

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Michelle Greiver is a family physician with the North York Family Health Team in Toronto   As a family doctor, I sometimes wonder if I provide too much care for...

Nov 03 2015

Reflections

On reach, dissemination and engagement: shouldn’t people read the paper?

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Susan E Connolly is a first year PhD candidate at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge, UK. She holds degrees in Veterinary Medicine and Statistics from University College Dublin. She...

Oct 28 2015

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Refugees should have access to equitable, affordable health care services in all Europe

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Dr Patrick O’Donnell is a Clinical Fellow at the University of Limerick and works on the Partnership for Health Equity project. Last week he attended WONCA Europe 2015 Congress as...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Integrating palliative care into primary care in France

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Sébastien Moine est médecin généraliste en Saint Just en Chaussée, France, et doctorant en santé publique (Université Paris 13) | Sébastien Moine is a GP in Saint Just en Chaussée,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

A Call to Action: Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care in the United States

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Anthony J. Caprio, MD, CMD serves as the medical director and an Associate Professor for the Division of Aging, in the Department of Family Medicine for the Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should

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Marianne Dees is a family physician and academic researcher at Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands   Let’s take a look at appropriate end of life care. The case...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Palliative care – everyone’s business!

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Geoffrey Mitchell is Professor of General Practice and Palliative care at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia   The developed world is experiencing a dramatic shift in its demographics,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

One of our biggest challenges: The End

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Fred Burge is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.   Finally, a plenary session at NAPCRG on dying. For over twenty years I’ve...

Oct 16 2015

Reflections

Why Canadian children need a champion

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Laura Stymiest is a paediatrics resident at Dalhousie University. She previously trained at the Coady International Institute and has researched in the area of Social Paediatrics. She writes with… Elizabeth...

Oct 07 2015

Reflections

Let’s lift the siege on public health

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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   I have worked in public health for most of...

Oct 01 2015

Reflections

Curiosity as competitiveness? Basic science research getting lost in translation

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Douglas W. Zochodne is a professor in the Division of Neurology and the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta    …an excessive concern with useful problems, regardless of...