Jun 11 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Prologue, Lifesource & Insomnia

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Jennifer Kwan McMaster University Class of 2015 As an artist, I study the human body through lifedrawing, recording the wages of time using graphite. As a medical student, I study...

Jun 10 2014

Editors' Blog

Voluntourism – call it a spade and use it carefully

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Dr Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to a great workshop, organized by the CMA’s Public Health division, aimed at...

Jun 05 2014

Editors' Blog

Early warning: a body scan may cost you your life

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor, clinical, at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open In the newspaper, today, I found a bright gold flyer with a dire warning—and some hope. The...

Jun 05 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Failure in medicine: my experience with the CaRMS match

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Catherine Smith University of Ottawa Class of 2014   As a medical student, I have been fairly successful in my academic life. During my undergraduate years I was at the...

Jun 04 2014

Reflections

By the look on his face….

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Pat Harrold is a family physician working in County Tipperary, Ireland It had been the worst snap of cold weather for many years. An elderly farmer had gone missing and...

Jun 03 2014

Editors' Blog

Our relationship status with alcohol: It’s complicated

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Erin Russell is an Assistant Editor working on CMAJ and CMAJ Open Alcohol is an addictive substance, a cancer risk factor, and a teratogen – yet you can buy a glass...

Jun 02 2014

Editors' Blog

Fat people eat more ice cream

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Fat people eat more ice cream. That’s not an evidence based, statistically validated...

Jun 02 2014

Medical Dispatches

Fukushima three years on

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Ryuki Kassai is a founding professor and chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan One day in November 2013, a 14-year-old girl...

May 28 2014

Student Humanities Blog

Drops for the baby and a shoulder for the mother

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Julian Diaz Abele McGill University Class of 2015 What does it mean to be a healer? The notion of healing versus curing is alluded to over and over throughout medical...

May 27 2014

Editors' Blog

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: now a treatable disease and other highlights from the 2014 American Thoracic Society Annual Conference

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by Matthew Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, CMAJ, in San Diego, U.S.A. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic progressive disease in which the normal connective tissue of the lungs (the interstitium) is...

May 26 2014

Editors' Blog

Patients’ experience of illness: lessons from classical guitarist, Liona Boyd

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by Gordon Giddings, Editorial Fellow (2013-14), CMAJ One of the benefits of attending conferences is in getting to share knowledge and in meeting colleagues—seeing how things are done in other...

May 26 2014

Editors' Blog

Climate change, peer review, and the limits of medical expertise

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK There was a media storm on climate change last weekend in the UK....

May 23 2014

Student Humanities Blog

The Menu

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Ahmad Abdullah University of British Columbia Class of 2015 I woke up today after a fourteen-hour, guilt-free slumber. I had stayed awake for a total of 34 hours, running on...

May 21 2014

Editors' Blog

Do we eat too much salt—or not? More from the 2014 Consensus Conference on Nutrition

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by Matthew Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, CMAJ, in Hamilton, ON We all eat too much salt, right? And even if we’re perfectly healthy right now, without individual and population-level efforts to...