Competing Interests

If you were to read any commission/blog/column/op-ed/plan/vision about a health care system, Canadian or otherwise, you're almost certai...

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Lhin?

A meditation on the Ontario government's striking resemblance to Wile E. Coyote. Fellow London physician Dr. Mario Elia has a thoug...

I See Dead People

Doing Coroner's pelatihan all this week, so no anticipated new posts (but you never know). Looking forward to patients that don...

Rewarding Failure

Yes, I went through the pain of watching the replay of that Patients First teleconference. A couple of months back , I argued that the p...

Does Family Medicine Have A Future? Part Ii

What does an evolution in family medicine look like? Smart, nimble, and above all independent. Whether family doctors want to admit...

Does Family Medicine Have A Future? Part I

Time to open a can of worms about the inconvenient truth of the 800-pound gorilla riding the elephant in the room. Disclosure : I have ...