The Death And Life Of Canadian Medicine, Part Iv

What happens in med school doesn't stay in med school. Previously: Part I , Part II , Part III It's almost a miracle that Ca...

The Death And Life Of Canadian Medicine, Part Iii

You can't create a job description without an understanding of the modern job demands. Previously in this series: Part I , Part II W...

The Future Of Family Medicine, As Told To The Past

Like so many other doctors that craft letters to their younger selves, it's time I went back in time. It's late summer 1997, first...

What Do We Want From Primary Care, Part Ii

It's Christmas time, so why not put our wish list in writing? As I argued in my last post , reforming Canada's primary health car...

No Going Back

Too much of our thinking in health care is at least a half-dozen points-of-no-return ago. A forensic psychiatrist. A radiation physicist. ...

Speaking For The Dead

If a suicide can't shake the medical pembinaan system into action, nothing will. The motto of the Coroner's Office is, "we sp...

A Dangerous Idea: A General Medical Licence

Because I can't afford to attend the Family Medicine Forum on a Coroner/househusband/author's salary. The Family Medicine Fo...

Storytelling In Medicine: Spoken Or Written?

A simple rule of thumb for sharing your best medical anecdote. As I noted in the introduction , there are good reasons to share your sto...

It Ain't Rocket Science

An object lesson in public policy for Ontario health care, drawn from the world of education. My wife and I spent our formative years in m...