Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

A Call to Action: Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care in the United States

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Anthony J. Caprio, MD, CMD serves as the medical director and an Associate Professor for the Division of Aging, in the Department of Family Medicine for the Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should

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Marianne Dees is a family physician and academic researcher at Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands   Let’s take a look at appropriate end of life care. The case...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

Palliative care – everyone’s business!

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Geoffrey Mitchell is Professor of General Practice and Palliative care at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia   The developed world is experiencing a dramatic shift in its demographics,...

Oct 26 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

One of our biggest challenges: The End

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Fred Burge is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.   Finally, a plenary session at NAPCRG on dying. For over twenty years I’ve...

Oct 25 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Instances

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Laura Zuccaro University of Ottawa Class of 2017           I weave the ball through an intimidating defense, An elite player, striving to improve my game, I...

Oct 23 2015

Primary Care

Research in family medicine

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Carmen García-Peña is a Mexican family physician who is currently Head of the Research Division at the National Institute of Geriatrics. She is a keynote speaker at the forthcoming NAPCRG...

Oct 16 2015

Reflections

Why Canadian children need a champion

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Laura Stymiest is a paediatrics resident at Dalhousie University. She previously trained at the Coady International Institute and has researched in the area of Social Paediatrics. She writes with… Elizabeth...

Oct 15 2015

Editors' Blog

Scientists, Academics, Journals and Publishing

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   What is happening to scholarship in medicine, how are career scientists responding...

Oct 11 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Remembering What I Learned to Forget

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Greg Costello University of British Columbia Class of 2016 “Let [the physician] reflect that he has undertaken the care of no mean creature…” – Thomas Sydenham “Did you hear that...

Oct 07 2015

Reflections

Let’s lift the siege on public 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   I have worked in public health for most of...

Oct 04 2015

Student Humanities Blog

From Postpartum to Postop

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Chandra Anokye McMaster University Class of 2016 It was an ordinary Wednesday in clerkship. Handover went smoothly, and postpartum rounds were going well. New moms on the ward were happy...

Oct 01 2015

Reflections

Curiosity as competitiveness? Basic science research getting lost in translation

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Douglas W. Zochodne is a professor in the Division of Neurology and the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta    …an excessive concern with useful problems, regardless of...

Sep 30 2015

Medical Dispatches

The 5-year deferral period – a vestige of the past

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Maxime Billick, Jeremy Cygler, Gabriel Devlin and Bellal Jubran are all third year medical students at McGill University   We are four fresh and eager medical students just beginning clerkship,...

Sep 30 2015

Editors' Blog

Sunshine, research and waste at the 2015 REWARD/EQUATOR Conference

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open. She’s currently attending the Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.   Edinburgh...