Jan 27 2015

Reflections

Life and death on the streets: cold comfort from the medical system

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Richard Doan is a Psychiatrist with Inner City Health Associates and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario   In Toronto’s first week of true...

Jan 26 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Humanism in Medical Practice

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Vivian Tam McMaster University Class of 2017 A few days ago, I came across the application I wrote to gain entry into my university’s bachelor’s degree program. One of the...

Jan 22 2015

Reflections

Culture shock: Why do we deny patients open access to their personal medical information?

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Israel Amirav is a Program Director and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta     As a program director at the Faculty of Medicine,...

Jan 20 2015

Reflections

Preventing death from medication errors

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Bonnie Salsman is a Consultant Pharmacist and Project Lead for SafeMedicationUse.ca at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada)    David U is President and CEO of ISMP...

Jan 18 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Practice Makes Perfect: The Hidden Curriculum of Learning Medicine

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Maria Powell Memorial University Faculty of Medicine Class of 2017 Why do you want to be a doctor? The age-old question asked in the medical school interview. I remember when...

Jan 16 2015

Reflections

Juice on inpatient diabetic menus: Are we propagating pulp fiction?

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Kirstie Lithgow is a second year internal medicine resident at the Cumming School of Medicine in Calgary, Alberta.     It is standard care to start patients with type 1...

Jan 15 2015

Medical aid in dying

Euthanizing God? Theism and conscientious objection to physician-assisted death

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Ewan C Goligher MD is an Intensivist at Toronto Western Hospital and a doctoral student in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario   Stephen W...

Jan 13 2015

Editors' Blog

Je suis Charlie

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Driving across France yesterday, “Je suis Charlie” was everywhere. As I skirted...

Jan 09 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Out of Place

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Shaurya Taran University of Ottawa Class of 2016   At my hospital, the ICU is tucked away in a quiet wing on the second floor, far away from the bustle...

Jan 07 2015

Medical Dispatches

Teaching a technique to improve health in Haiti

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Neil Pollock is a Clinical Instructor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, and an Associate Professor at Laval University, Montréal, Québec     Haiti has faced immense...

Jan 07 2015

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

On to the dark detour called chemo – but I’m not alone

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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...

Jan 07 2015

Reflections

Where is the Equal Opportunity in Mental Health?

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Ogochukwu Crystal Williams is a Child Protection Specialist and Director/Founder of Uniquely Destined Ltd. in Blackfalds, Alberta   I feel a need to highlight the deficit and treatment of mental...

Jan 05 2015

Barry McMahon, Patients' blog

Scuba diving as therapy

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Barry McMahon is retired and lives in Ottawa. He’s the proud father of 3 daughters and a grandfather of 6 with an insatiable curiosity about all issues relating to promoting...

Dec 24 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Winter Eyes

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Beatrice Preti McMaster University Class of 2017 When she wakes up, I see her eyes Filled with the hope of a million lies Fading fast like a twilit sky When...