Feb 25 2015

Reflections

Remembrances of Alicia Priest

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Alan Cassels is a researcher and author. Editor’s Note: Health journalist and author Alicia Priest died on Jan. 13, 2015, three years after receiving a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...

Feb 25 2015

Student Humanities Blog

A Time for Death

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Daniel Paluzzi Queen’s University Class of 2016 I entered the room with the idea I’d be their support, the sturdy foundation upon which to rest in their moment of need....

Feb 18 2015

Student Humanities Blog

House Call

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Whan (Ben) Kim McMaster University Class of 2016       Choking in a scarf of cold flies Stands a brick home in winter dread Coughing, wheezing. ‘Olding my breath,...

Feb 16 2015

Editors' Blog

Myth busters, winter sports, tendinopathy and the law – Saturday at the CASEM-OMA symposium

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK, recently returned from attending CASEM-OMA Sports Medicine symposium in Ottawa.   Myth busters...

Feb 12 2015

Editors' Blog

Preventing injury, the cycle commute and edutainment at the CASEM-OMA Sports Medicine symposium 2015

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK. This week he is attending the CASEM-OMA Sports Medicine symposium in Ottawa.  ...

Feb 10 2015

Editors' Blog

Rugby concussion, ski trauma and horse racing’s orthopedic textbook

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Concussion is in the news again. In the first of the Six...

Feb 09 2015

Student Humanities Blog

How We Do Harm: Book Review

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Jason Kinnin Memorial University of Newfoundland Class of 2018 How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Rank About Being Sick in America by Otis Webb Brawley, M.D., with Paul Goldberg....

Feb 09 2015

Jacki Hollywood Brown, Patients' blog

Spotty vaccination records can leave Canada’s military families vulnerable

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Jacki Hollywood Brown has been a military spouse for almost 25 years. In that time, she has lived in four Canadian provinces and two different countries. She maintains a regular blog at Canadian Army...

Feb 06 2015

Editors' Blog, Medical aid in dying

Physician-assisted dying in Canada: the gavel has fallen

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Today is a momentous day for physicians in Canada. No matter what your opinion about whether or not physician assisted dying is...

Feb 05 2015

Editors' Blog

French general practitioners take action

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   French general practitioners went on strike today. It’s part of an extended period...

Feb 04 2015

Editors' Blog

Who’s afraid of three-parent babies?

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Yesterday, after a long public consultation by the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority and a heated debate and vote in the English...

Feb 04 2015

Peggy Cumming

Swimming away the effects of chemotherapy

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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...

Feb 02 2015

Reflections

Aborting the Term “Miscarriage”

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Iris Gorfinkel is a General Practitioner and Principal Investigator / Founder of PrimeHealth Clinical Research in Toronto, Ontario.   After 25 years of practising women’s health, I am continually taken...

Jan 30 2015

Editors' Blog

Watch the movie — become a family physician

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Yes, its good! It’s a fast-moving portrayal of family practice as a...