The quality of entries for our 2025 Student Essay Contest was so high that we decided to share them all. Here's an essay by Bailey Mitchell from the University of Waterloo.
An FP shares how a message on a T-shirt helps patients shed shame, feel seen, and begin to understand that their suffering reflects deep sensitivity, care and resilience—not weakness.
It’s hard to go through a full career in medicine without moments that hit you so hard, they shift your entire trajectory. Some are amazingly positive insights, others downright painful. But ideally, they all lead to growth.
I recently spoke with Dr. Ben Robert, an Ottawa medical director of long-term care, who still practices comprehensive care in his family medicine office.
The survey, which is being conducted in partnership with the CFIB, asks doctors how much time they’re spending on paperwork and how much the administrative burden is affecting their wellbeing and professional fulfillment.
