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.
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.
Dr. Mary Fernando spoke with Dr. Kona Williams, the only Indigenous forensic pathologist in Canada, about the delicate nature of bringing medical information to light about Indigenous children who did not survive the residential school system.
Quebec FP Dr. Geneviève Dechêne says the urban family practice has drifted toward a technocratic practice: FPs spend their days filling in forms and other clerical work so that their patients can access the health “system” and be seen by specialists.
I have never forgotten the cold and insensitive words of my father’s surgeon. I have never forgiven his failure to comfort and counsel when it was most needed.
As demand for first vaccine doses plateaus, our focus becomes reaching the vaccine hesitant. The extra effort expended to convince those patients will be well worth it for all of us.
