Sep 30 2015

Student Humanities Blog

When Words Fail

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Beatrice Preti McMaster University Class of 2017           The curtains were drawn, I walked into the room, Looked at the lady, and said, “How do you...

Sep 29 2015

Reflections

Modern Medicine: let’s return to reason

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Nikhil Joshi is a Fellow in Clinical Immunology at the University of Manitoba. He wrote a blog for CBC about his experience with cancer I was reading about Allergic Bronchopulmonary...

Sep 28 2015

Editors' Blog

Peer reviewers – we couldn’t do without you

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Monday 28 September to Friday 2 October is “Peer Review Week“.* This...

Sep 25 2015

Reflections

Remembering Doctors Sacks and Sackett: Two different legacies leave a path to better care

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Dr. Joshua Tepper is a family physician and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Quality Ontario, the provincial adviser on health care quality Written with Alanna Glassman, writer...

Sep 16 2015

Editors' Blog

Election 2015: Health care issues that should be top of mind

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by Barbara Sibbald, Editor, News and Humanities, CMAJ For the past 30 years, in poll after poll with only one exception, Canadians have declared that health care is the most important...

Sep 12 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Gulliver

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Chien-Shun Chen University of Toronto Class of 2016 Gulliver’s Travels, a familiar story from many of our childhoods, lends itself to highlight the significance of cultural psychiatry. Do we –...

Sep 10 2015

Reflections

Good health requires environmental security

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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   Security has emerged as an important issue in the...

Sep 08 2015

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

My Best Life

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Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher – retired after 34 years in the classroom – and an...

Aug 25 2015

Editors' Blog

Ode to Big Data

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ; she’s currently attending the 31st International Conference on PharmacoEpidemiology &Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE) in Boston   About a year ago I suggested “Big...

Aug 24 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Lost Words

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Kevin Dueck Western University Class of 2016 This piece was originally created for and showcased at Creating Space V (a White Coat, Warm ART exhibit in Vancouver, BC from April 24...

Aug 21 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

The past, present and future family doctor

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. He’s giving the opening keynote address at the upcoming Swiss Family Doctors Conference...

Aug 21 2015

Reflections

Health as a federal election issue

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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 federal election seems to be focusing largely on...

Aug 18 2015

Medical Dispatches, Reflections

As a recent Canadian medical graduate I feel ill-equipped to manage transpeople

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Robyn Thom is a PGY 1 psychiatry resident at Harvard Longwood   It was a winter afternoon when I came to the shocking realization that although I was only months...

Aug 12 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Book Review: Every Patient Tells a Story (Lisa Saunders)

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Brandon Chau Western University Class of 2018   When I first picked up Every Patient Tells a Story in the library, I expected a rather one-dimensional anthology of medical cases...