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  • The agony of da feet

    In childhood, we are told to walk before we run. I started running at age 36. There was no apparent reason to start running aside from the fact that in the early 80s, it was what people were doing for health and fitness
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  • Should we fire anti-vaxxer patients?

    Dr. Jabir Jassam thinks about how much we have all done to get here in the pandemic and he laments the risk that those who refuse to be vaccinated pose.
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  • Who gets to define professionalism?

    What happens when our imperative to speak out runs up against barriers? When we encounter hostile interlocutors, when we are responded to disrespectfully by anonymous citizens or by colleagues?
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  • When are family docs supposed to find the time to reach out to the unvaccinated?

    The Ontario government is looking to family doctors to close the unvaccinated gaps in their patient populations. But how exactly are they going to make the time?
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  • Poll: How open is your clinic to in-person care?

    With COVID-19 cases declining, are you having more patients come into your clinic?
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  • Last chance for democracy at CMA

    We, the undersigned physician leaders, are speaking here to represent perspectives which are shared by many practising doctors. The CMA is set to make a change that will make it undemocratic. Pure democracy is the way to go for president and board positions.
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  • Vaccination's unwilling and unable

    How do you manage the unvaccinated people in your life? In my life, I have two distinctly different “categories” of unvaccinated people; the unable and then unwilling. I can’t decide which group frustrates me more.
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  • CPSO draft social media policy profoundly challenging

    The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has published its new draft policy statement on the use of social media by physicians but this policy, if implemented, could see doctors in Ontario abandon social media platforms to which they contribute so much.
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