Category: Reflections

Feb 12 2020

Patient access to essential rare disorder drugs: The long and winding road

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Nigel Rawson is President of Eastlake Research Group Donna Lawrence is Director, HTA and Health Economics, with PDCI Market Access Inc. You’ve been diagnosed with a rare disorder....

Feb 07 2020

Reflections

Is the process of funding Canadian scientific research failing to advance Nobel prize-worthy work?

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Ernest Cutz is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, and a former senior pathologist in the Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine...

Feb 06 2020

Reflections

What we do

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Sujin Im is a family medicine resident R1 at University of Toronto. The morning after another 24-hour call shift at labor and delivery, I went for my routine rounding...

Jan 29 2020

Doctors' health, Reflections

Are physicians with burnout eligible for workplace-related compensation?

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Tara Riddell is a PGY4 resident in Psychiatry at McMaster University. Ana Hategan is an Associate Clinical Professor and Geriatric Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University....

Dec 03 2019

Patients' blog, Reflections

The power of patient and caregiver partnership

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Maggie Keresteci is a caregiver to her sibling who lives with a life altering disease and is committed to advocating for solutions that will improve the lives of Canadian patients...

Nov 18 2019

Reflections

where roots end

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan. arachnoid aneurysm there used...

Nov 14 2019

Reflections

Do I even like politics?

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Imaan Javeed is a medical student at the University of Toronto. Warming up my dinner in the microwave, I habitually open the YouTube app to see what’s going on in the world....

Oct 30 2019

Reflections

All the anatomy she taught

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Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan. a voice from mine,...

Oct 26 2019

Reflections

Asking for a referee letter

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Due to the sensitivity of the post, the author wished to publish the following piece anonymously. Dear potential Referee, My name is Jane Doe, medical student and residency applicant. So...

Oct 21 2019

Reflections

Structural violence and Canada’s overdose catastrophe: time for a Royal Commission

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Dan Small is a medical anthropologist and lecturer at the University of British Columbia. Since 2018, British Columbia has been pursuing legal action against pharmaceutical companies for their involvement...

Oct 17 2019

Reflections

Why the MCC Qualifying Examination Part II still matters

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Maureen Topps is the Executive Director and CEO of the Medical Council of Canada. Nothing matters more in my role than helping Canadian and international medical graduates succeed as they...

Oct 10 2019

Reflections

Can’t have one without the other: an argument for conscientious provision of healthcare services

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Marika Warren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University. In early July The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia dismissed a complaint against...

Oct 07 2019

Reflections

Harnessing the power of patients’ written words in clinical notes

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Iris Gorfinkel is a General Practitioner, and Founder and Principal Investigator at PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ontario. Medical documentation in primary care is a balancing act between promoting timely connection with patients and...

Oct 05 2019

Reflections

Open encounters in crowded ERs

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Sarina Lalla is a medical student in class of 2020 at McMaster University. When I was on an emergency medicine rotation, I asked for a room to tell...