Month: August 2019

Aug 24 2019

Medical aid in dying

First loss

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Gayathri Sivakumar is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at Western University.       A cold awakening when I got a call about you the feeling of...

Aug 20 2019

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

A lesson in palliative care from my grandmother

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Sarah Chauvin is a PGY2 Family Medicine resident at McMaster University.   Palliative care empowers and comforts individuals with life-limiting illnesses. It may be sought at any point and serves...

Aug 19 2019

Reflections

Google Scholar Syndrome

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Eleftherios Diamandis is Professor and Head, Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto   In the 1970s, my mentor and Professor...

Aug 17 2019

Reflections

Stranger in the room

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Mei Wen is a currently a PGY1 in Family Medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital.   I walk in, tired, threw my backpack down and headed to my work desk, robotically...

Aug 16 2019

Editors' Blog

Let’s see a concrete plan to implement universal pharmacare in Canada

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Yesterday an open letter addressed to the leaders of Canada’s federal political parties was published calling for a firm commitment to implementing a universal, comprehensive,...

Aug 04 2019

Primary Care

A call for action for summary clinical reports

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Richeek Pradhan is a Ph.D. candidate in Pharmacoepidemiology at McGill University. If you want to find out what Lady Gaga’s met gala costume looked like, or where Queen Elizabeth dined...