Category: Editors’ Blog

Jun 23 2016

Resilience and Mutual Accountability at the CPS annual conference

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ. She is currently attending the Canadian Paediatric Society annual meeting in Charlottetown, PEI Much as I love the Harry Potter books and...

Jun 09 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Highlights from Day 2 of PHCRIS Canberra

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He recently attended the 2016 Primary Health Care Research Conference (PHCRIS) in Canberra,...

Jun 08 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reform and Innovation: highlights from the 2016 Primary Health Care Research Conference

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He is currently attending the 2016 Primary Health Care Research Conference in Canberra,...

May 30 2016

Editors' Blog

Lessons most runners learn too late (even doctors)

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Couch potatoes say that you never see a happy jogger, and they...

May 05 2016

Editors' Blog

Is general practice failing?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK My programmed response is always to jump to the defence of primary...

May 01 2016

Editors' Blog

Signing of the Paris Climate Change Agreement: is it important for health?

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ This morning I swam at my local YMCA with Canada’s Minister for the Environment and Climate Change. Minister McKenna and I belong...

Apr 20 2016

Editors' Blog, Reflections

A young doctor’s death

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK They found the body. A short paragraph buried in the newspaper. Dr...

Apr 08 2016

Editors' Blog

Feeling rejected

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK One of the best pieces of research with which I was involved...

Mar 21 2016

Editors' Blog

Yesterday’s heroes: challenges facing top athletes when they retire

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK You step off the podium into an abyss. And, that’s if you...

Mar 03 2016

Editors' Blog

Can you get out of your chair unaided?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The newspaper story about our research focused on the proportion of older...

Feb 11 2016

Editors' Blog

Exercise for older athletes: Is there such a thing as too much?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Some years ago, out walking along the river, I met an ex-athlete friend...

Feb 03 2016

Editors' Blog, Medical aid in dying

I never thought this day would come…

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open. In June 1993 I attended my first international research meeting. WONCA (World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and...

Jan 29 2016

Editors' Blog

Thinking the unthinkable: General Practice Research

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Reading a recent robust critique of the achievements and challenges to academic...

Jan 10 2016

Editors' Blog

Cancer, genetics, and caring

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Could cancer simply be due to bad luck rather than environmental factors,...