Discussions

How rural Canada can attract and retain international healthcare providers: Address discrimination, provide support
Recruiting internationally educated healthcare professionals to work in underserved communities is not new. However, challenges in keeping them in these communities persist.
Pharmacists with big ideas—it never gets old
You would think that after more than two decades of following all things pharmacy, there would come a point at which nothing could impress or surprise me. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

Exhausted and buried alive in an administrative avalanche?

Dr. Eric Cadesky offers some useful suggestions on how to can reclaim your time and energy
Laboratory mice are usually distressed and overweight, calling into question research findings

Over 120 million laboratory rats and mice are used worldwide each year. Many are used to study distressing conditions like cancer, arthritis and chronic pain, and nearly all spend their lives in small, empty box-like cages: a kind of permanent lockdown.
POLL: How are you feeling about the return of live educational events?

We're starting to see the re-emergence of in-person pharmacy conferences and events this Spring. How comfortable are you feeling with their reemergence?
Poll: Would more nurse practitioners ease the strain on primary care?

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Misinformation on social media threatens healthcare reform: @CMA_Docs president

It's up to Canadian physicians to be active on social media platforms to counter the widespread 'infodemic' that threatens to undermine their work.
How Wordle saved my life, one letter at a time

I recently discovered WORD DOC—essentially a wordle in which the word to be guessed must be somehow medical.
Why are we still smoking?

Dr. Hector Baillie recounts the long history of the smoker whose vice continues to plague too many of us today.
Canada’s premiers are missing a real chance to fix our ailing healthcare system

When Canada’s premiers doubled down earlier this year on their demand for a $28 billion unconditional increase in the Canada Health Transfer (CHT), they missed an opportunity to finally achieve the kind of healthcare reform our underperforming system has been told it needs over and over again.