Category: Reflections

Apr 21 2017

Reflections

Bridging the information gap between physician and patient perspectives on health

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Charlie Tan is a medical student at McMaster University Lawrence Loh is Associate Medical Officer of Health at Peel Public Health   Too often, physicians forget that they might be...

Mar 24 2017

Reflections

Misled by incomplete facts about effects of coal burning

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Kim Perrotta is Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE)   A month ago the Financial Post published a commentary entitled “They keep saying shutting...

Mar 22 2017

Patients' blog, Reflections

New territory: failing to plan for the unthinkable

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Sarah Currie lives in Ottawa, Ontario   I changed jobs this week. On Monday, my first day, when I should have been primarily concerned with learning the office microwave-cleaning rota...

Feb 10 2017

Reflections

Our descendants need protection from us

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   The Iroquois Confederacy’s Great Law is said to include...

Jan 31 2017

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

We need to move beyond God’s Healthcare Plan

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Cory Peel is a GP-Anesthesiologist who locums throughout British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon   A couple of months ago I read Mike Hager’s article in the Globe and Mail...

Jan 20 2017

Reflections

Canadian healthcare in 2017: let’s aim for a smarter, more caring Canada

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Jesse Kancir is a resident in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and former Policy Adviser to Canadian federal Minister of Health, Jane Philpott  ...

Jan 04 2017

Reflections

Drug shortages: resolutions for 2017

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Jacalyn Duffin is a hematologist and historian who holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen’s University   The sixth full year of the global generic drug...

Dec 20 2016

Reflections

The challenge of preventing overdiagnosis

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Iona Heath was a general practitioner in inner-city London for 35 years and is a Past President of the UK Royal College of General Practitioners.  She is a co-chair of...

Dec 19 2016

Reflections

The importance of data presentation and peer review in medical reporting

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Pippa Hawley is the Head of the Division of Palliative Care at the University of British Columbia   The recent headlines about legalization of cannabis in Canada – a subject...

Dec 10 2016

Reflections

A neglected determinant of health: Urban design

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Li (Danny) Liang is a second year medical student at the University of Toronto with a BEng degree and a deep interest in the intersection of urban design and health...

Nov 24 2016

Reflections

Trump’s ‘ignore-ance’ will harm our health

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   In 2002 Donald Rumsfeld, then US Secretary of Defence,...

Oct 25 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Making human genetics great again by being strongly together

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Stuart Nicholls is a Clinical Investigator and Methodologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Methodologist at the Ontario Child Health Support Unit (OCHSU). He recently attended...

Oct 17 2016

Editors' Blog, Reflections

“The other side of silence”

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK.   Dear Linda, I have just read your book – or, should I...

Oct 11 2016

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care, Reflections

Let’s not be our own worst enemies

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Bonnie Larson is Family Physician at Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS) Health Centre   Recently I called the emergency department from my outreach clinic in an urban shelter.  Near the...