Category: Editors’ Blog

Sep 23 2014

Let’s put a firecracker under health care innovation in Canada

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ A recently published CMAJ Q&A with David Naylor, chair of the federal government’s new Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, hinted at how...

Sep 22 2014

Editors' Blog

White coat, white privilege?

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor on CMAJ Whether or not you’re a fan of the NFL or the Minnesota Vikings, chances are you’ve heard of Adrian Peterson and...

Sep 16 2014

Doctors' health, Editors' Blog

The loneliness of the sick doctor

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK “It was the loneliest I’ve ever felt,” said my consultant surgeon colleague as...

Sep 14 2014

Editors' Blog

Creatively transforming the patient experience (TEDMED 2014)

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Kirsten Patrick is a deputy editor at CMAJ Health care professionals need to learn to do more to encourage self-expression in healing. Watching Friday’s TEDMED session entitled ‘Weird and...

Sep 13 2014

Editors' Blog

The humanity of medicine (TEDMED 2014)

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Moneeza Walji is CMAJ’s editorial fellow 2014-15 Some would say it is strange to remind physicians or health care workers of the humanity of medicine, I would argue with the...

Sep 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Play is not a waste of time (TEDMED 2014)

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor on CMAJ The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression. — Brian Sutton-Smith A little nonsense now and then is cherished by...

Sep 12 2014

Editors' Blog

A recipe for amazing (TEDMED 2014)

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Lauren Vogel is a news editor on CMAJ What separates a good idea from an amazing one? A TEDMED2014 session I live streamed Wednesday provided plenty of clues. Although the...

Sep 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Zoobiquity: collaboration between veterinarians and physicians (TEDMED 2014)

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ Humans are mammals. Yup. Sometimes we need to be reminded of the obvious in order to give our head a shake. Dr....

Sep 11 2014

Editors' Blog

Facing our discomfort around surrogacy (TEDMED 2014)

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor on CMAJ Rhonda and Gerry Wile’s journey to creating their family is documented on their personal blog and in Leslie Morgan Steiner’s new...

Sep 11 2014

Editors' Blog

Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ There is undeniably a modern surge of chronic disease, gut disorders and autoimmune diseases (cancer, Crohn’s, celiac disease, diabetes, lupus, etc.), especially...

Sep 11 2014

Editors' Blog

On embracing the unknown (TEDMED 2014)

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Lauren Vogel is a news editor at CMAJ “We just don’t know.” It’s not exactly what most people want to hear from medicine’s top minds. We want our healers to...

Sep 10 2014

Editors' Blog

Rethinking the delivery of breastfeeding advice (TEDMED 2014)

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Kirsten Patrick is deputy editor at CMAJ Breastfeeding? Really? At TEDMED? C’mon breastfeeding is as old as humanity and we know everything there is to know about its benefits (just...

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...

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...