Jun 14 2017

Reflections

Crossroad of patient safety and medical malpractice in Canada

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Dr. Santanu Chakraborty is Associate Professor in Radiology in The University of Ottawa and Radiology Quality Officer at The Ottawa Hospital. Patient safety is taking its rightful place in the...

Jun 08 2017

Reflections

The art of medical imaging

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Kari Visscher is an artist.  She’s also a physician. And she’s turning a promising career as a radiologist into a work of art. The fifth year radiology resident sees art...

May 15 2017

Editors' Blog

Credible answers to contentious questions in André Picard’s book, “Matters of Life and Death”

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Barbara Sibbald is editor of News and Humanities at CMAJ, and author of the recently published collection of short stories, “The Museum of Possibilities“   Health policy pundits should look...

May 12 2017

Reflections

Getting the WHO we want means vetting before the Director General vote

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Bill Jeffery is the Executive Director of the Centre for Health Science and Law (CHSL), and  publisher of Food for Life Report magazine   The new Director General (DG) of...

May 09 2017

Reflections

Double standards in concussion recovery: Sidney Crosby’s latest injury

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Matt Eagles is soon to graduate from Memorial University’s medical school, and is headed to a Neurosurgery Residency program at the University of Calgary; he is a former Major Junior...

May 05 2017

Reflections

Improving the quality of our healthcare system: Are we adopting the right approach?

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Ijaz Rauf is President at Eminent Tech Corporation and an Adjunct Professor of Physics, School of Graduate Studies at York University   Growing evidence of problems in the level of...

Apr 24 2017

Reflections

Opiophobia: the new fashion in town

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Praveen Ganty is a Consultant in Pain Medicine & Anesthesia in Toronto   There is a new fashion in the world of Medicine, and in the world of primary care...

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...

Mar 16 2017

Doctor Mom

Doctor Mom’s son learns that contact with the health care system is best avoided

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Doctor Mom is a physician who lives in Ontario*   It’s March Break, which means last chance to do winter activities for some families in Canada. Unfortunately, I’m not Winter...

Mar 02 2017

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care

Driving versus thriving: a novel approach to public health screening advocacy

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Did you hear about Chris’s mint condition 1963 Shelby Cobra? Mechanics say he didn’t check the oil for decades, and the engine just seized one day on the way to...

Feb 28 2017

Primary Care

Enhancing value: Realizing the promise of primary care through effective implementation

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Arlene Bierman is the Director of Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI) at the United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Rick Glazier is a Family Physician...

Feb 23 2017

Primary Care

Cross-border learning: Advancing the science of transformation in integrated primary care

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Robyn Tamblyn is the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and  Epidemiology...