Medicine And The Limits Of Politics

The obligations on the medical profession do not extend to the ideology or platform of any political party. It's a big week for the C...

Bill 87: Self Regulation, Rip

The Ontario government's Protecting Patients Act ends the health professions' self-regulation once and for all. In true Canadian fa...

Patient Accountability...Really?

Exploring the latest buzzwords to permeate health care discussion. When I was a medical student and resident, the discussions about hea...

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 ...

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...