Oct 28 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

How to answer the casual question, ‘How are ya?’

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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 23 2014

Editors' Blog

Medical innovation or a risk to responsible clinical care?

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   The “Medical Innovation Bill” could radically change the way doctors make treatment...

Oct 23 2014

Reflections

Why smoking on campus is uncool

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Bob Seeman is Chair of The RIWI Corporation, CEO of Clera Inc. in Vancouver, and former Head of Strategy for Microsoft Network, UK Neil Seeman is Founder and CEO of...

Oct 22 2014

Student Humanities Blog

My First Patient

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Benedict Darren McMaster University Class of 2017 Tonight I met my first patient. Her name is Denise, and she is a 66 year old woman who, upon the first few...

Oct 20 2014

Amelia Curran, Patients' blog

Suicide is not cowardice. Listen!

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Amelia Curran is a Juno Award winning singer-songwriter from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Amelia has toured extensively throughout North America, the UK, Europe and Australia. I used to think suicide was...

Oct 20 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

And now I’m PISSED OFF!

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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 19 2014

Reflections

Responding to domestic violence – victims, workplace and friends & family

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Alison Gregory researches domestic violence at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol University, UK   Recently domestic violence hit the headlines, again, with Ray Rice’s assault of his fiancée...

Oct 15 2014

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

Not pro-death; just anti-suffering

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Wanda Morris is the CEO of Dying With Dignity, Canada, the national organization working to reduce unwanted suffering at end of life   Every year at Dying With Dignity Canada...

Oct 15 2014

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

Care, Compassion, and a little Humility…

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James Downar is a Critical Care and Palliative Care physician with a Master’s degree in Bioethics. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of...

Oct 15 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

I choose Hope

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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 14 2014

Primary Care

Valoriser la médecine de famille : une aventure en Suisse

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Le Dr François Héritier, spécialiste en médecine générale, est président de la Société Suisse de Médecine Générale Plus de 8 ans d’engagement pour obtenir progressivement toute une série de mesures...

Oct 14 2014

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

Physician Hastened Death: Awaiting a Verdict

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Prof Harvey Max Chochinov, OC OM MD PhD FRCP(C), is Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care; Director, Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit; Chair, Canadian Virtual Hospice; and Distinguished Professor in...

Oct 13 2014

Medical aid in dying, Reflections

The Law and physician assisted dying: who owes what, to whom?

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Tom Koch is a medical ethicist and writer who has served as a commentator on and consultant in cases of physician-assisted suicide in Canada. His most recent book is Thieves...

Oct 09 2014

Doctors' health

Physicians’ health in Germany

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Dr. Sabine Ziegler is a general practitioner with an interest in palliative care, practising in Ettlingen, Germany   For readers from Canada, a “mother land” of physician health, my reflections...