Sep 11 2014

Editors' Blog

On embracing the unknown (TEDMED 2014)

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Lauren Vogel is a news editor at CMAJ “We just don’t know.” It’s not exactly what most people want to hear from medicine’s top minds. We want our healers to...

Sep 10 2014

Editors' Blog

Rethinking the delivery of breastfeeding advice (TEDMED 2014)

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Kirsten Patrick is deputy editor at CMAJ Breastfeeding? Really? At TEDMED? C’mon breastfeeding is as old as humanity and we know everything there is to know about its benefits (just...

Sep 08 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Human Nature

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Katelyn Maki University of Calgary Class of 2016 I am fascinated with the study of the human body through the lenses of both art and science. In my art, I...

Sep 08 2014

Editors' Blog

CMAJ is proud to be an affiliate of TEDMED 2014

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Erin Russell is an assistant editor on CMAJ and CMAJ Open This week, some 2,200 leaders from medical and non-medical fields (including CMAJ Editorial Advisory Board member Erica Frank) will...

Sep 04 2014

Reflections

My New Meeting Mantra

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Prof Sarah Forgie is a pediatric infectious disease physician at the Stollery Children’s Hospital and associate professor in the University of Alberta’s Department of Pediatrics I asked a few colleagues,...

Aug 28 2014

Editors' Blog

Slacktivism: truth or cynicism

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Moneeza Walji is the CMAJ Editorial Fellow 2014-15 You’ve likely been nominated by someone in your family, your group of friends or in your organization to do the ALS Ice...

Aug 27 2014

Reflections

Medicine’s Own Brain Drain

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  Dr. Akshay Shetty (centre right) is an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Calgary Dr. Won Hyung A. Ryu (centre left) is a Neurosurgery Resident at the University...

Aug 26 2014

Doctors' health

Hearing lost and regained: a professional and personal experience

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Dr Andrew Dunlop is a General Practitioner in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK As a doctor, to be quite honest, I never really thought about how hearing loss would affect a person’s...

Aug 26 2014

Doctors' health

Doctors’ Health: overcoming our Great Expectations and pathological self-reliance

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Dr Andrée Rochfort is Director of Quality Improvement at the Irish College of General Practitioners, Dublin I frequently wonder how we can best prepare young doctors for their future medical roles...

Aug 25 2014

Student Humanities Blog

A Simple Touch

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Lisa Harvey Memorial University Class of 2015 I spent six weeks in Salvador & São Paulo, Brazil on an unofficial elective in both gynecology and ophthalmology during the summer of...

Aug 23 2014

Reflections

Health Information Technology – there’s no good app for that…

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Gillian Bartlett is Associate Professor and Research and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Family Medicine, McGill University Rachel Simmons is an MSc Student in the Department of Family...

Aug 21 2014

Primary Care, Reflections

The Symphony and medical teamwork – reflections on the WONCA Europe Conference 2014

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Raquel Braga is a family doctor at Lagoa Family Health Unit, Matosinhos Local Health Unit, Portugal.   A massive 3761 participants from all over the world attended the 19th WONCA...

Aug 19 2014

Editors' Blog

Climate change and the circumpolar experience

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Kirsten Patrick is a Deputy Editor at CMAJ, currently at the IEA World Congress of Epidemiology in Anchorage, Alaska   The 20th International Epidemiology Association World Congress being held in...

Aug 18 2014

Medical Dispatches

“No, don’t touch the dead body!”

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Azaria Marthyman is a primary care physician in Victoria, BC, who has recently returned from Liberia “No, don’t touch the dead body!” “Save yourself so you can save others!” “Midwives,...