Nov 17 2014

Primary Care

How to create great researchers: family medicine research East of Eden

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Igor Švab is head of department of Family Medicine and vice dean of Medical Faculty in Ljubljana, Slovenia     I am a family medicine academic from a country with...

Nov 15 2014

Primary Care

Primary care research – riding changes in the U.K.

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Amanda Howe is Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia in Norwich – one of the newer medical schools in the U.K. She is also a GP,...

Nov 14 2014

Primary Care

Primary health care research needs leadership, not pampering

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Chris van Weel is Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine/General Practice at Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands; Professor of Primary Health Care Research at the Australian National University in Canberra,...

Nov 13 2014

Primary Care

Primary care research: a minority sport?

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Helen Carr is a General Practitioner in Guildford and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Health Care Management and Policy at Surrey University in the United Kingdom  ...

Nov 12 2014

Primary Care

Exciting times for primary care research in Canada

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Alan Katz is a professor in the Departments of Community Health Sciences and Family Medicine at the University of Manitoba, where he serves as Director of Research   It is...

Nov 11 2014

Reflections

Stolen war medals found after 25 years

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Geoffrey Reaume is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at York University, Toronto   Who would ever have thought that writing an article for CMAJ could lead to...

Nov 10 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

My next event is Lung Surgery and I’m in training

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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 10 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Boundaries

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Vamana Rajeswaran McMaster University Class of 2015 Every day, my hands are pinching, prodding, percussing, comforting, creating, supporting. Every day, I step over your bit of curb, so why can’t...

Nov 06 2014

Reflections

Sympathy for the Devil: society, psychiatry and terrorism

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Normand Carrey is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia I feel sad for the families of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Corporal Nathan Cirillo, who were...

Nov 03 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

“Quiet little deaths”: dealing with impending loss

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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...

Oct 31 2014

Editors' Blog, Patients' blog

Run in the dark

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   “Unbreakable” is the life story of Mark Pollock, an athlete, adventurer and...

Oct 30 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Alive

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Erica Lee Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry Class of 2015 I died, yet they resuscitate. Keep me alive. Do what it takes. Insert a line. Crush my chest. Spare...

Oct 30 2014

Editors' Blog

Defending the political prescription for obesity

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Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ   There’s a quote from the film ‘When Harry Met Sally‘, (Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal) that I always thought was rather profound. One...

Oct 29 2014

Editors' Blog

10 things I learned from @kevinmd about why physicians should actively participate on social media

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Matthew Stanbrook (right in picture) is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, currently at the CHEST 2014 annual meeting in Austin, Texas.   While social media and its intersection with medicine may...