Category: Reflections

May 21 2015

Reflections

Is Omar Khadr a threat to Canadians?

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Michael Clark is an Assistant Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine   I think it is time that pediatricians and other physicians who care for children weigh in...

May 07 2015

Reflections

Social change at the heart of medicine: An interview with CMA’s Chris Simpson

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Ryan Meili is a family physician at the West Side Community Clinic in Saskatoon, Head of the Division of Social Accountability at the University of Saskatchewan, founder of Upstream: Institute...

Apr 30 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Learning about rural family practice

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Declan Fox is a Family Physician in Tignish, PEI   Dubrovnik, Croatia, was the setting for this year’s WONCA rural practice conference. This is an amazing small city, the so-called ‘Pearl...

Apr 29 2015

Reflections

Making social determinants of health matter: An interview with Sir Michael Marmot

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Ryan Meili is a family physician at the West Side Community Clinic in Saskatoon, Head of the Division of Social Accountability at the University of Saskatchewan, founder of Upstream: Institute...

Apr 20 2015

Reflections

Raising expectations: Down syndrome and informed decision making

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Alison Bruni is a resident in Family Medicine at the University of Toronto   “We’re so relieved that our child will be healthy.” A pair of expectant parents voiced this...

Apr 17 2015

Reflections

The dark side of The Star’s Gardasil episode: when doctors and regulators are painted as the enemy

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Lawrence Loh is an adjunct professor in the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Author’s note: The views expressed in the...

Apr 15 2015

Reflections

Cross-cultural communication in clinical practice – insights from the RESTORE Conference part II: the North American viewpoint

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Suzanne Gagnon is a professor at the Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine Department, Université Laval, Québec The RESTORE conference took place from March 26–27th 2015 in Limerick, Ireland.   As...

Apr 14 2015

Reflections

Cross-cultural communication in clinical practice – insights from the RESTORE Conference part I: the Irish viewpoint

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Dr Patrick O’Donnell is a Clinical Fellow in Social Inclusion at the Partnership for Health Equity, a pilot project of the the University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School The...

Apr 13 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

A glorious failure: recruiting pregnant women for physical activity research in primary care

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Madeline Brennan is GP Research Registrar at the Department of General Practice and Primary Care and Centre of Public Health, Queen’s University, Belfast Margaret Cupples is a general practitioner and professor at the...

Mar 31 2015

Reflections

Medical “momoir”: a doctor’s transition to motherhood

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Ashley Miller is a child psychiatrist and family therapist at BC Children’s Hospital. She lives with her husband and two children in Vancouver. I entered medical school in much the...

Mar 18 2015

Reflections

John Robert Evans, 1929–2015

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Editor’s note: this is an edited version of a eulogy delivered by Ilse Treurnicht on February 19, 2015  John Evans’s legacy in Canada is so large, so multifaceted that it...

Mar 09 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Koplik spots: their importance and history

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Koplik was not the first to describe these lesions, but he was the first to emphasize that they were pathognomonic of measles

Feb 25 2015

Reflections

Remembrances of Alicia Priest

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Alan Cassels is a researcher and author. Editor’s Note: Health journalist and author Alicia Priest died on Jan. 13, 2015, three years after receiving a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...

Feb 02 2015

Reflections

Aborting the Term “Miscarriage”

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Iris Gorfinkel is a General Practitioner and Principal Investigator / Founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ontario.   After 25 years of practising women’s health, I am continually taken...