Discussions

POLL: If a specialist declines a referral, should it be mandatory to suggest someone else?
See what your colleagues say. Take our weekly doctor poll.
Top 5 takeaways for MDs: Incorporating the Olympic spirit into our medical practice
The Olympics may be over for this round—but there are many lessons we can take from them to apply in practising medicine.

New treatments offer much-needed hope for patients suffering from chronic pain

Many chronic pain conditions actually involve a combination of all three of these phenomena—nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain—which adds to the difficulty of diagnosis and treatment.
The patient doctor: Leaving my MRI distraction playlist behind

Clinical guidelines feel awfully different when you're the patient being subjected to them, rather than the MD using them.
‘The docs don’t have a lack of customers’

The way politicians talk about pharmacist prescribing misses the point, argues Dr. Marina Malak.
‘Can’t we get this over with?’

The case occurred pre-MAiD but it still stays with Dr. Romayne Gallagher for it explored a matter of meaning.
Data: Musings on its importance in medicine

Four letters, two of them repeated. Not a big word. But one on which businesses are built and run by. And what is the most complicated business on the planet Earth? Medicine.
Let’s help grow more intergenerational connections

Three experts argue we need to foster more intergenerational connections across the country.
Medical Student Disease changes with age, but doesn’t disappear

Being a physician is itself a risk factor for health anxiety. Before I started in medicine, I had the general obliviousness towards health which is the natural state of the average 22-year-old. Soon, however, that vanished.
Clinical pain challenges: fibromyalgia (part one)

In this latest in her Pain Points series, Dr. Angela Mailis discusses the history of fibromyalgia and the significant difficulties that still come with diagnosing it today.