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Compassion Fatigue

  • Quit

    Physicians need to learn to balance their grit and quit ratio, kind of like the gas and the brake pedal.
  • Dr. I.M. Canuck—the perfect Canadian MD?

    Dr. Ted Jablonski constructs a 'super' Canadian doctors from the skills each province exemplifies most strongly.
    Dr. Ted Jablonski
  • Family medicine is a failing business model

    Just looking at the broad stroke numbers of what it was like for me starting out as a family doctor in the 1990s compared with today—it makes no financial sense for a new MD to pick family medicine.
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  • Summarize and the livin' is easy

    As a medical student, I always admired my classmates’ ability to create clinical vignettes that succinctly captured the essence of a patient’s condition. 
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  • I wish I had known

    Dr. Natalya E. O’Neill, a rural family medicine resident, reflects on the lessons learned from the loss of a patient.
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  • The meeting

    Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on how strange it is to refer to yourself as a doctor in the past tense upon retirement.
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  • The pharmacist's guide to saying 'no'

    There are steps we must take, and assumptions we must reset, to reclaim our most precious resource: Time
    Black woman in orange sweater holding up her hand to say no
  • What was family medicine like in 2024?

    Dr. Adam Chen has a little chat with the Ghost of New Year Yet to Come and discovers what 2024 has in store.
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