Aug 15 2014

Doctors' health

It really was that bad, but I came back

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Declan Fox is a Family Doctor in Tignish PEI (that’s Prince Edward Island, Canada, for international readers)   How did I get here? With apologies to Talking Heads, I wonder...

Aug 14 2014

Doctors' health

Physician as patient

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Richard Roberts is Professor and past Head of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is immediate past president of...

Aug 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Lessons on healthy ageing from the 15th FINA World Masters Swimming Competition

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Kirsten Patrick is a Deputy Editor at CMAJ I’ve come back to competitive swimming in the last couple of years, as a Master. Although I enjoyed a youth spent in...

Aug 10 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Moments

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Nour Khatib McGill University Class of 2015 There are moments you wish you could eternalize, Drop everything and write, Freeze the hallway of stretchers and whites. Write about what you...

Aug 06 2014

Editors' Blog

Children on Mont Blanc, the Commonwealth Games, and a memorial service for Stewart Hillis

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Taking your nine year old to climb Mont Blanc (altitude 4810m), seeking...

Aug 01 2014

Editors' Blog

Physician-centred health care

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor, clinical, at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open   As clinicians, we are taught about patient-centred care, where the needs and desires of the patient...

Jul 31 2014

Reflections

What I learned from participating in international medical electives

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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 in Ireland...

Jul 29 2014

Editors' Blog

A peek inside the world of medical illustration

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ (she is also a trained medical illustrator) Perhaps you’re familiar with the profession, but many are not. Medical illustrators are educated in...

Jul 29 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Drifting Away

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Carolyn Reardon Dalhousie University Class of 2015 Today is a “good day.” At least right now it is, early in the morning. Sometimes it seems my good days drift into...

Jul 28 2014

Reflections

Why do Chinese physicians say that they would NOT advise their children to study Medicine?

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By Deng Luo, MD PhD, Wen-Zhuo Ran, PhD, Yun Sun, MD, PhD, Hua Huang, MD, and  Wang-Yang Yi, MD. Recently, a surprising survey of more than 3860 doctors in China...

Jul 24 2014

Editors' Blog

Looking back on my year as an editorial fellow

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Gordon Giddings is the outgoing CMAJ Editorial Fellow (2013-14)   It’s likely that you will hear many different responses from colleagues when you announce to them, after having been in practice...

Jul 23 2014

Editors' Blog

Anticoagulation and atrial fibrillation – more action, less anxiety

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Atrial fibrillation makes me nervous. In the distant past there was only digoxin....

Jul 23 2014

Student Humanities Blog

An Elective in Perspective

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Peter Reardon Dalhousie University Class of 2014 I decided to sleep in and head over around 12:30 in the afternoon since I was anticipating little sleep overnight. It was the...

Jul 21 2014

Reflections

Cycling and the middle aged man – more urodynamics than aerodynamics?

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Last summer, for the third year in a row, more than 4,000 people (mostly middle-aged men) pedaled their ultralight road bikes from downtown Vancouver to downtown Whistler, BC, a whopping...