Category: Reflections

Jan 27 2015

Life and death on the streets: cold comfort from the medical system

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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 In Toronto’s first week of true...

Jan 22 2015

Reflections

Culture shock: Why do we deny patients open access to their personal medical information?

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Israel Amirav is a Program Director and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta As a program director at the Faculty of Medicine,...

Jan 20 2015

Reflections

Preventing death from medication errors

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Bonnie Salsman is a Consultant Pharmacist and Project Lead for SafeMedicationUse.ca at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada) David U is President and CEO of ISMP...

Jan 16 2015

Reflections

Juice on inpatient diabetic menus: Are we propagating pulp fiction?

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Kirstie Lithgow is a second year internal medicine resident at the Cumming School of Medicine in Calgary, Alberta. It is standard care to start patients with type 1...

Jan 07 2015

Reflections

Where is the Equal Opportunity in Mental Health?

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Ogochukwu Crystal Williams is a Child Protection Specialist and Director/Founder of Uniquely Destined Ltd. in Blackfalds, Alberta I feel a need to highlight the deficit and treatment of mental...

Dec 11 2014

Reflections

On the striking downward trend in injuries associated with alpine skiing

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Martin Burtscher is Professor at the Department of Sport Science, Medical Section, at the University of Innsbruck, Austria Gerhard Ruedl is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sport Science...

Dec 10 2014

Reflections

Reflecting on the Golden Rule and Global Health Residency Electives

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Silvina Mema MD MSc is a Senior Resident in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Calgary, Alberta Lynn McIntyre MD MHSc FRCPC is Professor in...

Dec 09 2014

Reflections

Poor people need not apply

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Abdullah Nasser is a medical student at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, in London, Ontario The lecture hall slowly came to life. Notebooks in hand,...

Nov 28 2014

Reflections

Health Canada and Wind Turbines: Too little too late?

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Carmen Krogh, BScPharm (retired), is a peer reviewed IWT health researcher and former Director of Publications and Editor-in-Chief of the CPS. R Y McMurtry is Professor Emeritus (Surgery) of Western University...

Nov 27 2014

Doctors' health, Patients' blog, Reflections

How having a Subtalar Dislocation increased my empathy for my senior patients

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Amy Gajaria is a third year resident in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto Last week was the first snowfall of the season in Toronto. Usually,...

Nov 27 2014

Reflections

Learning from Alberta’s experience: privately contracted healthcare in a publically funded system

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Stephen Duckett is Director, Health Program at the Grattan Institute, Australia, an expert adviser with EvidenceNetwork.ca and the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Alberta Health Services If...

Nov 21 2014

Reflections

Kardashian Index, Anti-Vax and Ebola: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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Alireza Jalali, MD, is Interim Head of Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Social Media Adviser to the Royal College of Physicians and...

Nov 11 2014

Reflections

Stolen war medals found after 25 years

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Geoffrey Reaume is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at York University, Toronto Who would ever have thought that writing an article for CMAJ could lead to...

Nov 06 2014

Reflections

Sympathy for the Devil: society, psychiatry and terrorism

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Normand Carrey is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia I feel sad for the families of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Corporal Nathan Cirillo, who were...