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 15 2017

Medical aid in dying

Visceral responses to law of the heart transgressed; we should not suppress them

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David Falk is a palliative care physician working in Calgary, Alberta   Recently the president of one of the Quebec medical federations published a request to the public to give...

Jan 07 2017

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Innovations in primary care research

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   The concept of the “Salon” is based on the tradition of European...

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 13 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

A primary care research success story

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   How do you create a successful school of primary care research?  Measuring...

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,...

Nov 15 2016

Primary Care

East of Last Chance: finding research paradise on the high plains

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John M (Jack) Westfall is a Professor of Family Medicine and Director of the High Plains Research Network. Dr Westfall will be speaking at the forthcoming North American Primary Care...

Nov 15 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reflections on Day Two of #NAPCRG2016

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ. She is currently attending the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) annual meeting in Colorado Springs, CO.   In the plenary session...

Nov 15 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Constriction

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Jeremy Zung University of Toronto Class of 2016 Taut sheets as cotton fetters In curtained cloister bare Enshroud the shrivelled limbs Whose fingers flex in fetal curl ‘Round liquid sleep....