Patient-First Language

Medicine needs three things to survive, argues Dr. Shawn Whatley: civility, logic and free speech.

Dr. Ronald Bergman, a prominent plastic surgeon in Des Moines, Iowa, was also sued recently by a fellow plastic surgeon who accused him of hurling crude, misogynistic insults at her in front of patients and staff.

After a recent debate about the hijab, regular writer Dr. Jabir Jassam offers his take on the main problems Islam faces today.

Dr. Sherif Emil's statement regarding his CMAJ letter on the hijab where he explains why he wrote the letter in the first place.

Dr. Sohail Gandhi argues the journal running a letter that called the hijab an instrument of oppression was indefensible.

The letter to the editor called hijabs "tools of oppression" in certain contexts, which sparked dissent among medical professionals on Twitter, with many decrying the letter as Islamophobic.

Queensland's only private paediatric rheumatologist has ridden more than 3,000 kilometres to see his young patients.