Category: Reflections

Aug 17 2019

Reflections

Stranger in the room

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Mei Wen is a currently a PGY1 in Family Medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital.   I walk in, tired, threw my backpack down and headed to my work desk, robotically...

Jul 24 2019

Reflections

It’s time to talk: Gender and race in medicine

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Arundhati Dhara is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in the Department of Family Medicine Saroo Sharda is an Anesthesiologist in Oakville and an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University  ...

Jul 22 2019

Reflections

Not everything in health care needs to be virtualized

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Puneet Seth is a practicing family physician in Toronto, part-time Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and Chief Medical Officer of InputHealth Systems...

Jul 10 2019

Reflections

What I Am

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Beatrice Preti is an R2 in internal medicine at the Queen’s University.   It was a childhood dream, one that I loved well, A fairy-tale story I’d heard someone tell I...

Jul 08 2019

Reflections

How one great team’s victory set another one in motion

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Anser Daud is a medical student at the University of Toronto. He enjoys writing about health advocacy and human rights issues.   “We’re dealing with a situation that’s not far from...

Jun 26 2019

Reflections

Looking closely at the link between IVF treatment and childhood cancers

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Caitlin Dunne is a Co-Director at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM) in Vancouver and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.   A new study...

Jun 11 2019

Reflections

Canada’s national pharmacare plan: Reason for hope or more questions?

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Nigel Rawson is President at Eastlake Research Group   The 2019 federal budget announced that the federal government will take initial steps towards implementing national pharmacare to improve the affordability...

Jun 04 2019

Reflections

Victory of an anti-vaxxer mother: A case that should not set precedent

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Noni MacDonald is a Professor at Dalhousie University Shawn Harmon is a Policy Analyst at Dalhousie University   A recent family arbitration case that saw the arbitrator side with a mother...

May 17 2019

Reflections

Someone call the real doctor

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Mark Speechley is a Professor of Epidemiology at Western University   The age-old debate over who should be addressed as ‘doctor’ lives again in recent letters to CMAJ. Of course,...

Apr 29 2019

Reflections

Pregnancy loss: lessons from ‘Roma’

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Philippe Barrette is a psychotherapist, workplace facilitator and former Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University, Department of Psychiatry. David Streiner is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural...

Apr 09 2019

Reflections

The new ‘Wellness’ prescription: what it means in a surgical vocation of service

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Ally Istl is a senior General Surgery resident at Western University Sarah Jones is a Pediatric Surgeon at Western University   The concept of Wellness in the professional medical arena has become...

Mar 27 2019

Reflections

Where are my drugs made?

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Iris Gorfinkel is a General Practitioner, and Founder and Principal Investigator at PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ontario.   On July 10, 2018 Health Canada issued a recall of several...

Mar 08 2019

Reflections

The best of both worlds: bridging the clinical and non-clinical experience in hospitals

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Emily Harris is the Business Manager for the Heart and Vascular Program at Unity Health Toronto – St. Michael’s Hospital   Healthcare is a varied and multidisciplinary world. From clinical...

Mar 04 2019

Reflections

Addicts anonymous

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  Simraaj Kaur Powar is a Family Medicine Resident at Western University Windsor Campus Sukhbinderjit (Nikki) Powar is a Family Doctor in Mississauga     The concept of addiction, Is...