Discussions

POLL: How would you rate your work-life balance?
See what your colleagues say. Take our weekly doctor poll.
‘Just a pinch’: Women frustrated as medical community downplays pain of IUD insertion
Thousands of TikTok rants, viral tweets, a change.org petition signed by more than 36,000 women and peer-reviewed studies have all documented the grossly insufficient pain relief offered for IUD insertions by practitioners. So why isn't Canadian medicine changing?

Health minister’s berating of suffering patients was downright cruel

Desperate Canadians are being criticized for considering healthcare outside Canada, says Dr. Shawn Whatley.
Open letter to Premier Ford: Fix family medicine or risk losing the next election

It is coming up on 25% of Ontarians lacking a family doctor and the solution, Dr. Sohail Gandhi says to Ontario’s premier, is a raise of 35% for comprehensive care family physicians.
The power of primary prevention in community outpatient practice

I find it frustrating that, even as I am asked to make presentations to share my expertise at national cardiovascular conferences, practitioners rarely consider my recommendations for preventative and potentially life-saving cardiovascular measures.
Case report: The cream works

Dr. Bob Dickson has a case in his walk-in clinic that highlights insights for all of us.
To be or not to ODB

Pharmacies are already on the losing end of government-funded services, but will government’s greed now put patients on the wrong side too?
Kate Middleton is having ‘preventive chemotherapy’ for cancer. What does this mean?

The effectiveness of preventive therapy depends on the type of cancer and the type of chemotherapy.
AM or PM? That is the question

There are two things certain in life: death and taxes. If our patients die, how important is it that we convey to next of kin an accurate cause of death?
My 10 takeaways as a (former) med student advisor

CaRMS season is upon us again and I find myself reflecting on my days as a med student and as a mentor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine.