Category: Reflections

Feb 25 2019

The impact of poverty on Canadian children: a call for action

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Cal Robinson is a PGY2 Pediatrics resident at McMaster University interested in how social determinants of health impact Canadian children. On November 22nd, 2018, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government unveiled...

Feb 05 2019

Reflections

Memorial

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Courtney Bercan is community health nurse at a clinic in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver Years later, I still don’t want to think about it, let alone type it...

Jan 30 2019

Doctors' health, Reflections

Physician mental health: why we need to share our stories of struggle and success

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Sarah Tulk is a family physician in Hamilton, Ontario Despite earnestly advocating for physician mental health, my own story has remained cloaked in secrecy. As a medical student, I...

Dec 24 2018

Reflections

Book review: Are You The F**king Doctor?

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Pat Rich is an Ottawa based medical writer and editor. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. It would be the very height of pretentiousness to apply this phrase to...

Dec 18 2018

Reflections

Prescribing cannabinoids for pain is a challenge

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Hillel M. Finestone is a Physiatrist at the Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital and Professor, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa. My 52-year-old patient took his BP at a...

Dec 04 2018

Reflections

Echoes in the operating theatre

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Keegan Guidolin is a General Surgery resident at the University of Toronto Han Yan is a Neurosurgery resident at the University of Toronto Much attention has been paid of...

Nov 13 2018

Reflections

Rising incidence of colorectal cancer in Millennials – time for a paradigm shift?

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Dr. Dhruvin Hirpara is a General Surgery resident at the University of Toronto Dr. Nancy Baxter is a colorectal surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital Dr. Fayez Quereshy a surgical oncologist at...

Oct 09 2018

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

A long way from home

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Alastair McAlpine is a fellow in paediatric infectious diseases at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver People sometimes ask me, “What’s the difference between medicine in Vancouver and medicine in...

Sep 26 2018

Reflections

We need more nutrition education in medical schools

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Dr Margaret Rundle is a Family Physician practicing in Scarborough, Ontario There is little dispute among care providers that a person’s dietary habits influence preventative and treatment outcomes. Every...

Aug 27 2018

Reflections

The suburbs are not alright

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Kevin Lam is a third-year medical student at McMaster University Lawrence Loh is Associate Medical Officer of Health at Peel Region, Ontario, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana...

Aug 10 2018

Reflections

Ghost boy

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Denis Daneman is Professor and Chair Emeritus in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, and Paediatrician-in-Chief Emeritus at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto Here’s...

May 29 2018

Editors' Blog, Reflections

Why I called André Picard’s column on mental illness a nothingburger

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ A week ago, André Picard published a column in the Globe and Mail entitled “How many people actually suffer from mental illness?”...

May 10 2018

Reflections

CaRMS: the fortress between medical school and residency

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Jessica Dunkley is a PGY-4 in dermatology at UBC. She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Alberta Every year, Match Day for CaRMS brings back heart...

Apr 25 2018

Reflections

Sex, Syphilis, and The Taboo of Money in Medicine

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Mark Soth is a mid-career academic intensivist in Ontario, Canada. He blogs as the Loonie Doctor about physicians’ personal finance We really have come a long way as a...