Dec 17 2014

Primary Care

Renforcer le profil académique de la médecine de famille en Suisse

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Johanna Sommer, Hubert Maisonneuve et Dagmar M. Haller Unité de Médecine de Premier Recours, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genève, la Suisse   Grâce au soutien politique obtenu suite à l’élan...

Dec 16 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

The chance to say ‘thank you’

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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...

Dec 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Happy Universal Health Coverage Day

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   Today, 12/12/14, sees 533 partners in 103 countries participating in events to mark the first ever World Universal Health Coverage Day. Supported...

Dec 11 2014

Reflections

On the striking downward trend in injuries associated with alpine skiing

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  Martin Burtscher is Professor at the Department of Sport Science, Medical Section, at the University of Innsbruck, Austria Gerhard Ruedl is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sport Science...

Dec 10 2014

Reflections

Reflecting on the Golden Rule and Global Health Residency Electives

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Silvina Mema MD MSc is a Senior Resident in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Calgary, Alberta      Lynn McIntyre MD MHSc FRCPC is Professor in...

Dec 09 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Blink of an Eye

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Jessica Harris University of Saskatchewan Class of 2017 Doing everything right, Yet it all goes wrong In the blink of an eye Your world is changed Going on seems impossible...

Dec 09 2014

Reflections

Poor people need not apply

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Abdullah Nasser is a medical student at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, in London, Ontario   The lecture hall slowly came to life. Notebooks in hand,...

Dec 08 2014

Editors' Blog

The most extraordinary conference I’ve ever been to: Dotmed2014

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   At Dotmed2014 “The creative medical conference” everyone present seemed to be just...

Dec 03 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

P.A.I.N.

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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...

Nov 29 2014

Editors' Blog

The pestilence that stalks in the darkness: an allegory

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Ken Flegel is senior editor, Research, at CMAJ; an internist at Royal Victoria Hospital; and a Professor of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal   Readers will have observed that...

Nov 28 2014

Editors' Blog, Primary Care

Reflections on the NAPCRG Annual Meeting

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Guidelines Victor Montori  and France Légaré raised interesting points about guidelines. Victor pointed...

Nov 28 2014

Reflections

Health Canada and Wind Turbines: Too little too late?

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Carmen Krogh, BScPharm (retired), is a peer reviewed IWT health researcher and former Director of Publications and Editor-in-Chief of the CPS. R Y McMurtry is Professor Emeritus (Surgery) of Western University...

Nov 27 2014

Doctors' health, Patients' blog, Reflections

How having a Subtalar Dislocation increased my empathy for my senior patients

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Amy Gajaria is a third year resident in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto   Last week was the first snowfall of the season in Toronto. Usually,...

Nov 27 2014

Reflections

Learning from Alberta’s experience: privately contracted healthcare in a publically funded system

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Stephen Duckett is Director, Health Program at the Grattan Institute, Australia, an expert adviser with EvidenceNetwork.ca and the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Alberta Health Services   If...