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When you're in charge, administrative tasks can loom large, but it's important that they don't get in the way of big-picture planning and leading. Here are some tips.

University Avenue—a major hospital thoroughfare—was empty with the exception of staggered police cars and diagonal buses to prevent large trucks from getting through, with just enough space for an ambulance to slowly squeeze by.

Time to dole out some laughter as medicine. Share your funny caption idea for a chance to win.

How many times have you written “cranial nerves normal?” How many times did you actually test your patient’s sense of smell? Our olfactory nerve, and its accompanying apparatus, rank first amongst our 12 cranial nerves, but probably elicit the least respect.

The Olympics are meant to be a time for setting aside our differences, but there's rarely a year where controversy doesn't muddle the waters, no matter where or when they take place.

While we agree that building and graduating competent, world-class leading FPs is essential to the success of our healthcare system, the OTR fails to see the forest for the trees. They have chosen a blunt instrument that will fell the trees and harvest the wood for the coffin of General Practice training in Canada.  

I was recently talking to a young family doctor in Toronto who told me he was finishing his charting at midnight. I couldn’t believe it because I am home every day at 5:00 p.m. with no homework.

This year, instead of celebrating Resident Doctors Awareness Week, we are simply celebrating and appreciating resident doctors. Given where we are, now two years into a global pandemic, we couldn’t possibly pack all the appreciation you deserve into a single week. Instead, we would like to let you know that we understand what you are going through and we are here for you.