Jun 08 2016

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reform and Innovation: highlights from the 2016 Primary Health Care Research Conference

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He is currently attending the 2016 Primary Health Care Research Conference in Canberra,...

Jun 06 2016

Primary Care

Rallying again to support academic primary care in Australia

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Dr Grant Russell is a family physician, Head of School of Primary Health Care, and Professor of General Practice Research at Monash University in Melbourne Australia.   Every few months,...

Jun 06 2016

Primary Care

The Australian Primary Health Care Research Conference: Knowledge exchange without borders

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Dr Lynsey Brown and Dr Christina Hagger are conference conveners for this year’s Primary Health Care Research conference in Australia   High quality primary health care (PHC) research is a...

Jun 01 2016

Doctors' health, Medical Dispatches

The “forgotten” fourth aim of quality improvement in health care – improving the experience of providers

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Joshua Tepper is a family physician and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Quality Ontario   Often when we talk about improving health care, we turn to the...

May 30 2016

Editors' Blog

Lessons most runners learn too late (even doctors)

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Couch potatoes say that you never see a happy jogger, and they...

May 28 2016

Student Humanities Blog

Writer

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Adam Mosa Queen’s University Class of 2018 Charcoal on paper. This drawing was inspired by recent discussions with classmates on achieving balance during medical studies.

May 13 2016

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

A healthy death

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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   When Canada’s Supreme Court struck down the law prohibiting...

May 10 2016

Reflections

When a child dies

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Wasif Hussain is an Adult Neurology Resident PGY-5 at the University of Alberta   Hearing about last week’s Alberta court ruling against David and Collet Stephan regarding the failure to...

May 05 2016

Editors' Blog

Is general practice failing?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   My programmed response is always to jump to the defence of primary...

May 02 2016

Medical aid in dying, Patients' blog

Curt’s Story: An experience with Physician Assisted Dying

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This story is about my family’s experience with PAD (Physician Assisted Dying). Our hope is that it will be of some help to others following, or contemplating following, the same...

May 01 2016

Editors' Blog

Signing of the Paris Climate Change Agreement: is it important for health?

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   This morning I swam at my local YMCA with Canada’s Minister for the Environment and Climate Change. Minister McKenna and I belong...

Apr 20 2016

Student Humanities Blog

On the Nobel Laureates and Medicine: The Secret to an Extraordinary Career

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Brandon Tang University of Toronto Class of 2018 In the same way that you should not buy a lottery ticket and expect to win, you should not become a scientist...

Apr 20 2016

Editors' Blog, Reflections

A young doctor’s death

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   They found the body. A short paragraph buried in the newspaper. Dr...

Apr 18 2016

Primary Care, Reflections

The evolving face of public health crises in Canada: Are we ready?

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Nicole Kain is a PhD Candidate in Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta Cindy Jardine is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of...