Category: Medical Dispatches

Sep 07 2016

Heat waves and the absence of evidence to guide adjustment of chronic medications

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Dr Genevieve Gabb is a Senior Staff Specialist in General Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia; she also works at the Veterans Heart Clinic, Repatriation General Hospital, Daw...

Aug 22 2016

Medical Dispatches

Global Health Diplomacy: reflections on a graduate course

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Daniela Steyn is a Family Physician in Ontario Alumni of The Graduate Institute Geneva include former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. It seemed to me to be...

Aug 10 2016

Medical Dispatches

Anti-doping testing in athletics: standardisation-and-harmonisation negative

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Bill Cuddihy is a former Chief Medical Officer of Athletics Ireland and has been a member of the Anti-Doping Committee of Irish Sports Council since 2007 The doping problem is...

Aug 09 2016

Medical Dispatches

Boxing, brain damage and head protection: why aren’t the boxers at the Olympics wearing head guards?

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Mike Loosemore is Lead Consultant Sports Physician at the English Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health; he is currently at the Rio 2016 Olympics Have you noticed that the male...

Aug 02 2016

Medical Dispatches

Medical Football Team Canada returns from Barcelona with a 14th Place International Ranking and a research award

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Paul Dhillon is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Academic Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan Twenty-two physicians from across Canada recently left their examination rooms and operating theaters behind for...

Jun 01 2016

Doctors' health, Medical Dispatches

The “forgotten” fourth aim of quality improvement in health care – improving the experience of providers

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Joshua Tepper is a family physician and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Quality Ontario Often when we talk about improving health care, we turn to the...

Apr 10 2016

Medical Dispatches

We want to come home

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Viktoria Koskenoja is an emergency medicine resident in her fourth year of the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Haley K. Cochrane is an emergency medicine resident in her second year...

Apr 09 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A BC psychiatrist’s experience of providing psychiatric services to 4 Northern communities

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Peter Uhlmann is a semi-retired psychiatrist from Powell River, BC. He works as a locum consultant psychiatrist to several Northern communities. In 2004 I started providing psychiatric locum service...

Jan 07 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Let’s put healthy food on the conference table

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy Canada’s health ministers will meet in Vancouver on January...

Dec 18 2015

Medical Dispatches

Observations of a pathologist: preventable deaths reflect health infrastructure in Iraq

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Dr. Michael Pollanen is the Chief Forensic Pathologist at the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service I have recently returned from a humanitarian forensic medicine mission in Iraq. The autopsies I...

Dec 01 2015

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Refugees, human rights and global health: what role can Canadian physicians play?

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David Benrimoh is a fourth year medical student at McGill University Dr. Cécile Rousseau is a professor of psychiatry at McGill University, working with refugee and immigrant children The...

Nov 20 2015

Medical Dispatches

Humans of Pharmacare: exploring how our current system of drug provision impacts Canadians

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Medical Students, Henry Annan (Dalhousie University), Jackie Vanek (University of Ottawa), Jacquie Lu (Queen’s University) and Dorothy Yu (University of Manitoba), are the CFMS team responsible for Humans of Pharmacare...

Oct 28 2015

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Refugees should have access to equitable, affordable health care services in all Europe

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Dr Patrick O’Donnell is a Clinical Fellow at the University of Limerick and works on the Partnership for Health Equity project. Last week he attended WONCA Europe 2015 Congress as...

Sep 30 2015

Medical Dispatches

The 5-year deferral period – a vestige of the past

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Maxime Billick, Jeremy Cygler, Gabriel Devlin and Bellal Jubran are all third year medical students at McGill University We are four fresh and eager medical students just beginning clerkship,...