Aug 10 2015

Editors' Blog

Hunger in a land of plenty

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor at CMAJ   More than 800 000 Canadians access food banks each month, and no province or territory is unaffected by food insecurity. As...

Aug 07 2015

Graeme Rocker, Patients' blog

A New Equilibrium: A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery – Part Five

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Graeme Rocker is a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax Editor’s note: Part I of this series appeared as a Humanities article in CMAJ; parts II , III and IV...

Aug 05 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Medicine and Philosophy: A Necessary Relationship

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Lester Liao Western University Class of 2016   Medicine is often thought of as a matter of science. Experiments are conducted and cumulative evidence is then applied to best clinical...

Jul 30 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Facing Death

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Mary Koziol McGill University Class of 2018   I am not ready to die. But I am not afraid of death.

Jul 29 2015

Janet Whitehead, Patients' blog

Radon-induced lung cancer can be prevented

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Janet Whitehead works and lives in Vancouver, BC. She is the mother of 3 children and has a granddaughter.   Five years ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer. I...

Jul 21 2015

Patients' blog, Reflections

The agony and the ecstasy: a review of Inside Out

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor at CMAJ   I was 16 years old when Sadness and Joy first went AWOL in my brain for a protracted period. I...

Jul 20 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Editorial Note: The CMAJ Student Humanities Blog in Review

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Sumedha Arya, Outgoing Editor-in-Chief “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it...

Jul 16 2015

Reflections

Enough is enough: the US gun violence epidemic

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Viviana Goldenberg is a certified family physician practising in the United States *disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this blog are those of Dr Goldenberg and do not represent those of...

Jul 13 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Closure

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Benjamin Huang University of British Columbia Class of 2017 This spoken word was written after the death of a friend as a reflective means to express the feelings and questions...

Jul 12 2015

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Dangerous ideas

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, recently returned from the Society for Academic Primary Care’s annual conference in Oxford, UK   What sort of research would we be doing...

Jul 10 2015

Reflections

Healthcare of the future

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Harpreet Sood and Mahiben Maruthappu are Senior Fellows in the office of the Chief Executive for NHS England. Over the last decade, the NHS has achieved a lot. It has...

Jul 09 2015

Primary Care

Multimorbidity: time to deliver the Emperor’s clothes

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Bruce Guthrie is Professor of Primary Care Medicine at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He is a keynote speaker at this week’s Society for Academic Primary Care annual conference...

Jul 09 2015

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

Experiencing end-of-life care through my grandpa

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Shannon Lough is a news journalist for the CMAJ I found out my grandpa had a stroke on Thursday night. He was doing work in the backyard where he collapsed;...

Jul 09 2015

Primary Care, Reflections

“Mummy – do you have to go to the conference?”

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Susan A. Jebb is Professor of Diet and Population Health in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK. She is the conference chair for this...