Discussions

Physicians need to learn to balance their grit and quit ratio, kind of like the gas and the brake pedal.

Dr. Ted Jablonski constructs a 'super' Canadian doctors from the skills each province exemplifies most strongly.

Just looking at the broad stroke numbers of what it was like for me starting out as a family doctor in the 1990s compared with today—it makes no financial sense for a new MD to pick family medicine.

As a medical student, I always admired my classmates’ ability to create clinical vignettes that succinctly captured the essence of a patient’s condition. 

Cael was a typical 15-year-old—until the discovery of an already advanced abnormal curvature of his spine.

Dr. Natalya E. O’Neill, a rural family medicine resident, reflects on the lessons learned from the loss of a patient.

A recent editorial in the National Post suggests the government should pony up the cash for admin support in exchange for doctors taking on more patients—but would that really work?

Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on how strange it is to refer to yourself as a doctor in the past tense upon retirement.