An Ontario Doctors' Strike Won't Work

Don't do it. Don't even consider it. Many of Ontario's doctors are, as they say in the Maritime provinces, right some pisse...

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 ...