Category: Editors’ Blog

Dec 18 2015

Painting lives

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Imagine your work was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Last...

Dec 04 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Atomic Data

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK The James Mackenzie Lecture is one of the most prestigious eponymous lectures...

Nov 25 2015

Editors' Blog

Doctors’ dysfunctional behaviour and patient safety

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Throwing surgical instruments across a theatre, idiosyncratic single handed practice, refusing to...

Nov 15 2015

Editors' Blog

Doping in sport: More dreams in tatters and doctors were complicit

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Sport, the focus of so many dreams, hopes and ambitions is a...

Nov 10 2015

Editors' Blog

Nobel and noble – the work of unsung heroes

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK We expect Nobel Prize winners to be high profile researchers of almost...

Oct 29 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Some golden nuggets, and grumbles, from NAPCRG 2015

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Some sessions just stand out. Dee Mangin‘s stunning distinguished presentation of her...

Oct 26 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Early highlights from NAPCRG 2015

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Health care has three components, according to Michael LeFevre (University of Missouri)...

Oct 26 2015

Editors' Blog

‘Depressing’ or an opportunity? Health care in Canada

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open. She’s currently attending the 2015 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Toronto. The opening ceremony of the 2015 Canadian...

Oct 15 2015

Editors' Blog

Scientists, Academics, Journals and Publishing

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK What is happening to scholarship in medicine, how are career scientists responding...

Sep 30 2015

Editors' Blog

Sunshine, research and waste at the 2015 REWARD/EQUATOR Conference

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open. She’s currently attending the Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh...

Sep 28 2015

Editors' Blog

Peer reviewers – we couldn’t do without you

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Monday 28 September to Friday 2 October is “Peer Review Week“.* This...

Sep 16 2015

Editors' Blog

Election 2015: Health care issues that should be top of mind

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by Barbara Sibbald, Editor, News and Humanities, CMAJ For the past 30 years, in poll after poll with only one exception, Canadians have declared that health care is the most important...

Aug 25 2015

Editors' Blog

Ode to Big Data

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ; she’s currently attending the 31st International Conference on PharmacoEpidemiology &Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE) in Boston About a year ago I suggested “Big...

Aug 21 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

The past, present and future family doctor

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He’s giving the opening keynote address at the upcoming Swiss Family Doctors Conference...