Fatter Than We All Thought

Well, here's a factoid I don't think anyone ever saw coming. More obese people in the world than underweight, says study Almos...

Burning Down The House, Part Iii

The doctors' dispute has been about as pleasant to read about as a dirty diaper, so I'll go back to my series on burnout. In the l...

One Asshole's (Informed) Opinion: I Still Don't Get Twitter

I don't see how you can debate public policy 140 characters at a time. So the Ontario doctors' Twitterverse remains 100% atwit ove...

Thrivers And Survivors

Hey, I'm on Twitter! I'm now reachable by people that haven't had the (dis)pleasure of knowing me all these years. With that in ...

One Asshole's (Informed) Opinion: Still Waiting After All These Years

Can you call something a crisis if it's been going on for 20 years? If you came of age in the 1990s like me, I imagine you'd feel...

Chicken Soup For The Doctor's Soul

Courtesy of my very dear friend, Nurse Practitioner Megan Crawford, comes a link to a medical student's essay on the lost opportunity of...

One Asshole's (Informed) Opinion: All Good Things Arrive Unto Those Who Wait - And Don't Die In The Meantime

- Mark Twain, from a time long before the invention of wait-times targets Why do we need to wait for health care? If we allow ...

71,000 Words

The draft is done. For years, I've been told to write down every great story I've amassed as a doctor. While my usual response was...