Oct 19 2017

Reflections

Income splitting is not about taxes; it’s about rights

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Daniel Miller is a Physiatrist (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) in Lethbridge, Alberta   Income splitting has come under attack by the current Federal Liberal Government as an unfair tax advantage...

Oct 17 2017

Editors' Blog

#MeToo in medicine

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   This post really needs no introduction. First came #WomenBoycottTwitter when Twitter straightjacketed Rose McGowan and women reacted angrily to what they felt...

Oct 10 2017

Doctor Mom

Doctor Mom talks mental health with her teen

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Doctor Mom is a physician who lives in Ontario   Earlier this year I took my 13 year old son out to lunch to talk about mental health. It just...

Sep 20 2017

Reflections

The opioid crisis: patient engagement in pain management has never been so crucial

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Max Deschner is a medical student at the University of Ottawa Maaike de Vries is an epidemiologist & PhD candidate at the University of Toronto Jonathan Gravel is an epidemiologist...

Sep 15 2017

Editors' Blog

Big Data, burnout, mental health and innovation

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   In the last two weeks I’ve attended three very different scientific conferences on behalf of the CMAJ Group. In fact you couldn’t...

Sep 08 2017

Patients' blog

Sicker than I’d ever been before: a patient’s experience of sepsis

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Ray Schachter is a lawyer in Vancouver. He is on the Executive Committee of the Global Sepsis Alliance and Canadian Sepsis Foundation   In March 1996, I was a healthy,...

Aug 25 2017

Reflections

The Mentorship Project

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Justin Lam graduated from University of Toronto Medical School in 2017 and is now a first year resident in Paediatrics at UofT and SickKids   Denis Daneman is Chair Emeritus,...

Aug 17 2017

Reflections

Give them pens: the poetry of Shane Neilson

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Ally Fleming is a writer and publicist at Anstruther Press   Illness doesn’t end when you leave the doctor’s office. Affliction is carried, and pain is, as Shane Neilson writes,...

Aug 06 2017

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Rediscovering scholarship in family medicine

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Have we lost something in the success of academic family medicine? We...

Jul 26 2017

Reflections

Our Code of Ethics must prohibit physician participation in torture

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Wendell Block is a family physician at the East End Community Health Centre and the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture   In the thirty-odd years I have worked with...

Jul 19 2017

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Rediscovering enjoyment of general practice – SAPC Day 2

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Was I wrong! Pioneering Professional Practice doesn’t sound like the most stimulating...

Jul 17 2017

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Multimorbidity and the challenges of primary care practice at SAPC Day 1

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Shakespeare’s Warwickshire was the background to last week’s 46th Annual Scientific Meeting...

Jul 06 2017

Reflections

To save lives we should do more to control alcohol

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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   This is not going to make me popular with...

Jun 28 2017

Reflections

Pressure to breastfeed

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Sophie Soklaridis is an Independent Scientist and the Interim Director of Research in Education at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)  in Toronto, Canada     Almost 23...