Jan 19 2016

Reflections

A royal memory

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  Harold Fireman is a retired physician. He is 96 years old and retired aged 88   Medical doctors, in a long career, encounter many interesting, unforgettable events. Strangely, my...

Jan 10 2016

Editors' Blog

Cancer, genetics, and caring

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Could cancer simply be due to bad luck rather than environmental factors,...

Jan 08 2016

Reflections

Doctors should still care about the threat of nuclear weapons

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Juan Carlos Chirgwin is a family doctor working at CLSC Park Extension health facility in Montreal, Canada   Now that “Canada is back” and “sunny ways” are on the horizon,...

Jan 07 2016

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Let’s put healthy food on the conference table

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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 will meet in Vancouver on January...

Jan 05 2016

Reflections

The Forest from the Trees: A Learner’s Insight on Developing a Patient History

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Amanda Formosa University of Toronto Class of 2016 At the beginning of third year medical school, I envisioned the next twelve months as an immersion in the clinical world, with...

Dec 23 2015

Reflections

Living on the streets is no game

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Richard Doan is a Psychiatrist with Inner City Health Associates and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario   On December 19, the Globe and...

Dec 22 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Counter-transference

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Simone Banh McMaster University Class of 2016 On inspection I first notice your blonde locks Bouncing as you take your seat Face nestled in your foster mother’s embrace Blue eyes...

Dec 18 2015

Medical Dispatches

Observations of a pathologist: preventable deaths reflect health infrastructure in Iraq

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Dr. Michael Pollanen is the Chief Forensic Pathologist at the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service   I have recently returned from a humanitarian forensic medicine mission in Iraq. The autopsies I...

Dec 18 2015

Editors' Blog

Painting lives

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Imagine your work was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Last...

Dec 16 2015

Reflections

The elephant in the library

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  Kira Payne MD, FRCPC, is a recently retired psychiatrist and jazz musician living in Toronto, Ontario   You would think it would be easy to be an expert in...

Dec 04 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Atomic Data

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   The James Mackenzie Lecture is one of the most prestigious eponymous lectures...

Dec 03 2015

Reflections

Health Care and Climate Change

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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 this week of the Paris climate change summit,...

Dec 01 2015

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

Refugees, human rights and global health: what role can Canadian physicians play?

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David Benrimoh is a fourth year medical student at McGill University Dr. Cécile Rousseau is a professor of psychiatry at McGill University, working with refugee and immigrant children   The...

Nov 30 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Social Determinants of Palliative Care: A Medical Student’s Experience

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Ryhana Dawood Western University Class of 2016 “I have stage 4 lung cancer. I’m dying and this is where I will spend my last days.” I listened as a vulnerable,...