Category: Reflections

Jul 31 2014

What I learned from participating in international medical electives

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Dr Patrick O’Donnell is a Clinical Fellow in Social Inclusion at the Partnership for Health Equity, a pilot project of the the University of Limerick’s Graduate Entry Medical School in Ireland...

Jul 28 2014

Reflections

Why do Chinese physicians say that they would NOT advise their children to study Medicine?

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By Deng Luo, MD PhD, Wen-Zhuo Ran, PhD, Yun Sun, MD, PhD, Hua Huang, MD, and Wang-Yang Yi, MD. Recently, a surprising survey of more than 3860 doctors in China...

Jul 21 2014

Reflections

Cycling and the middle aged man – more urodynamics than aerodynamics?

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Last summer, for the third year in a row, more than 4,000 people (mostly middle-aged men) pedaled their ultralight road bikes from downtown Vancouver to downtown Whistler, BC, a whopping...

Jul 18 2014

Reflections

Time to Divest From the Fossil Fuel Industry

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By Ilona Hale, MD, David Hale, MSc, Env. Mgmt, Courtney Howard, MD, Warren Bell, MD As physicians we are trained to respond to emergencies – the more serious the diagnosis,...

Jul 17 2014

Reflections

Primary Care and universal health care dreams in ‘Soccer’s Country’

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Dr Marcelo Garcia Kolling is a GP and primary care academic in Curitiba, Brazil As Brazil prepared for the FIFA World Cup, its people were conflicted between football and needs...

Jul 16 2014

Reflections

Art, science and business: the legacy of the World Cup in Brazil

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Gustavo Gusso, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of General Practice at University of São Paulo, and the Former President of the Brazilian Society of Family and Community Medicine “Soccer is...

Jul 09 2014

Reflections

The Modern Art of Medicine

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Guest blogger, Martin Kaminski is a Research Associate in the Gastrointestinal Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and will soon take up a Speciality Training in Internal Medicine at...

Jun 04 2014

Reflections

By the look on his face….

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Pat Harrold is a family physician working in County Tipperary, Ireland It had been the worst snap of cold weather for many years. An elderly farmer had gone missing and...