Sep 17 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

I can find the courage to get through this

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Guest blogger, 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 –...

Sep 16 2014

Doctors' health, Reflections

Learning from doctors’ illness narratives

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Jonathan Tomlinson is a general practitioner in London, UK, and a NIHR In Practice Research Fellow at the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Barts and the London School...

Sep 16 2014

Doctors' health, Editors' Blog

The loneliness of the sick doctor

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK “It was the loneliest I’ve ever felt,” said my consultant surgeon colleague as...

Sep 15 2014

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

“Possibly scar tissue, possibly nothing, possibly Lung Cancer”

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Guest blogger, 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 –...

Sep 15 2014

Doctors' health

Doctors’ mental health

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Prof Jim Lucey is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director at St. Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. He is a keynote speaker at this week’s International Conference on Physicians’...

Sep 14 2014

Editors' Blog

Creatively transforming the patient experience (TEDMED 2014)

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Kirsten Patrick is a deputy editor at CMAJ   Health care professionals need to learn to do more to encourage self-expression in healing. Watching Friday’s TEDMED session entitled ‘Weird and...

Sep 13 2014

Doctors' health

Looking out for each other

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Trisha Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Health Care and Dean for Research Impact at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK The Professor of Trauma Surgery...

Sep 13 2014

Editors' Blog

The humanity of medicine (TEDMED 2014)

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Moneeza Walji is CMAJ’s editorial fellow 2014-15 Some would say it is strange to remind physicians or health care workers of the humanity of medicine, I would argue with the...

Sep 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Play is not a waste of time (TEDMED 2014)

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor on CMAJ The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression. — Brian Sutton-Smith A little nonsense now and then is cherished by...

Sep 12 2014

Editors' Blog

A recipe for amazing (TEDMED 2014)

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Lauren Vogel is a news editor on CMAJ What separates a good idea from an amazing one? A TEDMED2014 session I live streamed Wednesday provided plenty of clues. Although the...

Sep 12 2014

Editors' Blog

Zoobiquity: collaboration between veterinarians and physicians (TEDMED 2014)

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ Humans are mammals. Yup. Sometimes we need to be reminded of the obvious in order to give our head a shake. Dr....

Sep 11 2014

Editors' Blog

Facing our discomfort around surrogacy (TEDMED 2014)

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Sarah Currie is a medical copy editor on CMAJ   Rhonda and Gerry Wile’s journey to creating their family is documented on their personal blog and in Leslie Morgan Steiner’s new...

Sep 11 2014

Editors' Blog

Evolution of Medicine Summit

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Émilie Lacharité is Digital Content Editor at CMAJ There is undeniably a modern surge of chronic disease, gut disorders and autoimmune diseases (cancer, Crohn’s, celiac disease, diabetes, lupus, etc.), especially...

Sep 11 2014

Editors' Blog

On embracing the unknown (TEDMED 2014)

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Lauren Vogel is a news editor at CMAJ “We just don’t know.” It’s not exactly what most people want to hear from medicine’s top minds. We want our healers to...