Apr 08 2015

Graeme Rocker

A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery, part III: Christmas day with a leg bag

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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; part II appeared on...

Apr 07 2015

Graeme Rocker, Patients' blog

A physician’s journey beyond radical prostate surgery, part II: an unhealthy dose of reality

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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. I woke from the anesthetic with...

Apr 06 2015

Student Humanities Blog

“I am Struggling”: Lenses of Chronic Disease in Film

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Kyle Canton Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University Class of 2018   “We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do...

Apr 01 2015

Editors' Blog

Should we develop a global fund for cancer?

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Moneeza Walji is the CMAJ Editorial Fellow 2014–2015 In 2012, there were 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million cancer deaths. Of those, 65% were in the developing world....

Mar 31 2015

Editors' Blog

Taking care of patients admitted to hospital: practical advice from the Society of Hospital Medicine 2015 conference

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open While wandering past the many posters at the Society of Hospital Medicine 2015 conference, I noticed that many...

Mar 31 2015

Reflections

Medical “momoir”: a doctor’s transition to motherhood

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Ashley Miller is a child psychiatrist and family therapist at BC Children’s Hospital. She lives with her husband and two children in Vancouver. I entered medical school in much the...

Mar 27 2015

Editors' Blog

Conference FoMo

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Erin Russell is assistant editor for CMAJ and CMAJ Open   I first heard the expression “FoMo” (Fear of Missing out) about a month ago in a blog post written by...

Mar 26 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Book Review: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures

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Adriana Cappelletti Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University Class of 2018 Dr. Vincent Lam’s first book, 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, is a captivating...

Mar 23 2015

Editors' Blog

French doctor speaks out in pollution controversy

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK CMAJ and other medical journals have called for medical leadership on climate change and...

Mar 23 2015

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

Negotiating with Chemo Fatigue

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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...

Mar 18 2015

Reflections

John Robert Evans, 1929–2015

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Editor’s note: this is an edited version of a eulogy delivered by Ilse Treurnicht on February 19, 2015  John Evans’s legacy in Canada is so large, so multifaceted that it...

Mar 12 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Lingua Medica

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Christopher William Blake McMaster University Class of 2015 Before I arrived at medical school, I imagined I would learn many things.  I would study physiology and pathophysiology, treatment and etiology,...

Mar 11 2015

Editors' Blog

AUDGPI 2015: Health checks, physical activity, prescribing and managing Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Simon Griffin (Cambridge) was the headliner at the Association of University Departments of General...

Mar 10 2015

Editors' Blog

Some thoughts on a future research career

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Speaking to your colleagues at your own national conference, there is no hiding place....