Mar 03 2016

Editors' Blog

Can you get out of your chair unaided?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   The newspaper story about our research focused on the proportion of older...

Mar 01 2016

Student Humanities Blog

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Rhea D’Costa McMaster University Class of 2016 The following short poem was inspired by the mounting frustration that senior medical students feel around the most wonderful time of the year...

Feb 22 2016

Reflections

Medically unexplained symptoms: polyvagal theory to explain the weird things we see

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Bruce Arroll is a Professor of General Practice at the University of Auckland and a GP at the Greenstone Family Clinic in Manurewa Auckland   My first clinical impression of...

Feb 14 2016

Reflections

Human beings, urbanization and the Anthropocene

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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   We live at a time of two great –...

Feb 11 2016

Editors' Blog

Exercise for older athletes: Is there such a thing as too much?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Some years ago, out walking along the river, I met an ex-athlete friend...

Feb 09 2016

Doctors' health, Reflections

It lies in the balance

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Magbule Doko is a family physician in Windsor, Ontario, and an adjunct professor at The University of Western Ontario   School. Career. Children. Partner. Parents. Siblings. Being a Doctor. Getting...

Feb 05 2016

Reflections

Racial Profiling in Medicine: a brief history and a look at where we are now

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Boluwaji Ogunyemi is a Dermatology Resident Physician in Vancouver, BC, and a freelance writer for the Huffington Post, Ubyssey Newspaper, and the Online Journal for Community and Person-centered Dermatology  ...

Feb 03 2016

Reflections

The need for transparency regarding genetic engineering of food sources

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Ijaz Rauf is CEO of SolarGrid Energy Inc. and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at York University   The first trans-genetic animal intended for human consumption recently received approval from...

Feb 03 2016

Editors' Blog, Medical aid in dying

I never thought this day would come…

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open.   In June 1993 I attended my first international research meeting. WONCA (World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and...

Feb 01 2016

Student Humanities Blog

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Benjamin Huang University of British Columbia Class of 2017 This piece was written as reflection on the author’s rural family medicine experience.       s is for sechelt. s is...

Jan 29 2016

Editors' Blog

Thinking the unthinkable: General Practice Research

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Reading a recent robust critique of the achievements and challenges to academic...

Jan 28 2016

Reflections

The Canadian Common CV: an academic pursuit of hyper-compliance

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 Jacquelyn Cragg is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and University of British Columbia. John Kramer is an Assistant Professor at the University of...

Jan 23 2016

Student Humanities Blog

The Quiet Room

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Mary Koziol McGill University Class of 2018 I notice him several times as I hurry past, wondering to myself what his story could be. He’s quite an old man, at...

Jan 22 2016

Reflections

Memo to Canada’s Health Ministers: turn the system on its head

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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   Canada’s Health Ministers met in Vancouver this week. All...