Author: CMAJ

May 01 2018

Editors' Blog

Canadian health humanities association launched

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Barbara Sibbald is associate editor, Humanities, at CMAJ   After ten years, eight annual meetings and countless, long discussions the new Canadian Association of Health Humanities (CAHH) is up and...

Apr 25 2018

Reflections

Sex, Syphilis, and The Taboo of Money in Medicine

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Mark Soth is a mid-career academic intensivist in Ontario, Canada. He blogs as the Loonie Doctor about physicians’ personal finance   We really have come a long way as a...

Apr 24 2018

Reflections

The 20th anniversary of a vaccine debacle: time to reflect on how far we have come

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Natasha Sarah Crowcroft is Chief of Applied Immunization Research at Public Health Ontario and a Professor at the University of Toronto in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and the Dalla Lana...

Apr 17 2018

Reflections

“Nothing”

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Magbule Doko is a family physician in Windsor, Ontario, and an adjunct professor at The University of Western Ontario     Our decision, firm and dedicated To become doctors: a...

Apr 10 2018

Reflections

The returns of smarter spending on food in health care

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Howard Abrams is the Director of Openlab, a design and innovation shop located at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto   Andre Picard recently proposed in the Globe and Mail:...

Apr 05 2018

Reflections

When the doctor says sorry – do we know if apology laws work?

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Paul G. Thomas is Professor Emeritus of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. From 2004 to 2007 he served as the founding board chair for the Manitoba Institute for...

Mar 27 2018

Reflections

Junk science: a running hypothesis

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Lawrence Loh is an Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto   I took up run-commuting following the birth of my first...

Mar 23 2018

Doctors' health, Medical Dispatches

Resiliency: foundational skills for a long and productive career in medicine

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This article is co-authored** by (top row) Christina M. Nowik , Pamela Lai, Thomas McLaughlin, Simon Moore, (bottom row) Gillian Shiau, Natasha Snelgrove, Nureen Sumar, and Jasmin Yee, all of...

Mar 21 2018

Doctors' health, Editors' Blog

Whole-person care — the antidote to physician burnout?

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Rising awareness of the toll that physician burnout is taking on our profession and our healthcare services has inspired numerous organizational physician...

Mar 06 2018

Medical Dispatches

The Supply-Demand Mismatch: “What do you mean unemployed specialists?”

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Reza Mirza is a second year Internal Medicine resident at McMaster University Justin Hall is a third year Emergency Medicine Resident at the University of Toronto. Odion Kalaci is a...

Mar 02 2018

Reflections

Can health care learn from Bitcoin and blockchain?

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Adam Kassam  is the chief resident in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Western University Jeremy Wasserlauf is a fellow in cardiovascular disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School...

Feb 28 2018

Reflections

The CMA Presidential Election: What’s that to me?

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Sharon Yeung is a MD/MSc student at Queen’s University   I’ll be the first to admit: I’ve never been one for politics. The garish lawn signs of electoral campaigns, the...

Feb 27 2018

Reflections

The hidden curriculum of mental illness stigma in medical training

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Sarah Tulk is an Ontario physician who recently finished her residency training in family medicine at McMaster University   “If only he had chosen a higher floor, we wouldn’t have...

Feb 20 2018

Medical Dispatches

Laundry Detergent Pod Toxicity

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Tanishq Suryavanshi is a medical student at McMaster University Blair Bigham is an emergency medicine resident at McMaster University and a freelance journalist   Bandar Baw is an assistant professor,...