Discussions

Take our weekly poll: Some tests are not covered by all provinces. How often do you order such tests?

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) wants to engage a diverse group of leaders to help shape our association and our future work. And so, we need to ensure our board and committees are made up of people from a broad range of communities and backgrounds.

Ocean waters are now warmer, more acidic and hold less oxygen.

I see people suffering from dementia almost every day when I’m working in the emergency department in downtown Toronto, and I’ve watched friends stripped of their lives by this disease.

Between information overload on some fronts, lack of knowledge on others, long hours, changing rules and managing these straggler vaccine doses, I'm surviving, not thriving.

After writing an opinion item for the Medical Post recently called "Should we fire anti-vaxxer patients?" that showed quite a range of opinions from physicians about COVID-19 vaccines, Dr. Jabir Jassam returns to this topic to understand his colleagues’ opinions regarding the vaccines.

Testing new drugs on human cells is expensive and complicated, so it is difficult to do early in the development of a drug.

Like most busy physicians, I don’t often take care of myself the way I should. For many years I have “tolerated” an issue that really needed to be managed appropriately.