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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 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,...

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 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...